Claire Millikin grew up in Georgia, North Carolina, and overseas. She has lived in rural coastal Maine, and in New York City, where she earned her doctorate in English literature, and worked as a writer for l'Observatoire International. Before moving to New York City, she worked as a janitor and as a waitress. These days, she teaches as a lecturer at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, and lives in Charlottesville with her family. Her chapbook, The Gleaners, was recently published by Tiger's Eye Press. Museum of Snow is her first full-length collection of poems.

Books by Claire Millikin:

Other poems on the web by Claire Millikin:
"Materiality in Poetry"

About Museum of Snow:

"What does snow feel like, falling in the heart? Reading the poems in Claire Millikin's Museum of Snow offers an excavation of that gnosis. The collection is itself a museum (Gk mouseion: place of study, library, or museum, school of art or poetry) and its curator possesses what Wallace Stevens calls a mind of winter... In poems as closely keyed, lucid, stark, and secretive as black and white photographs, Millikin explores the transgressive, hunger-whetted, half-wild places that house us and that we house."
—Lisa Russ Spaar