English Professor Wayne Miller has been named an Honorary Member of Sigma Tau Delta, the International English Honor Society, for his “exemplary contributions to American letters and literature.” This designation was conferred by a unanimous vote of Sigma Tau Delta's Board of Trustees. Through it, Miller joins a select group of 87 other honorees from the last 100 years, including Edward Albee, Alison Bechdel, Saul Bellow, Cleanth Brooks, Gwendolyn Brooks, Jamaica Kincaid, Li-Young Lee, Ursula K. Le Guin, Naomi Shihab Nye, Amy Tan, and Eudora Welty.
Additionally, Miller’s poem “The End of Childhood,” which is the title poem of Miller’s sixth poetry collection (just out this past spring), has won a Pushcart Prize. Pushcart Prizes are given to honor the best pieces of literary writing published in the US in the previous year. This is Miller’s second Pushcart Prize in three years.
