1:42 p.m., April 24, 2008--Journalist, short story writer and teacher Emily Miller will speak at 5 p.m., Wednesday, April 30, in 127 Memorial Hall. The event, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Department of English and Caesura, the University's literary magazine. At the event, Miller will announce the annual English department writing award winners, whose work will appear in Caesura.

Miller, who currently is writing a novel, has worked as a journalist, freelance writer, television writer and writing teacher. In 2002, she published The River We Carry with Us: Two Centuries of Writing about the Clark Fork, an anthology of writing about western Montana's Clark Fork River Basin.

She has taught creative writing at University of Florida, George Washington University, The Writer's Center in Bethesda, Md., and the National Cathedral School, where she currently runs the Writing Center and teaches 10th grade.

Her nonfiction has appeared in High Country News, The Chronicle of Community and The Washington Post. Her short fiction has appeared in The Portland Review and The North American Review. Miller has been awarded residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, Caldera Center for the Arts and, most recently, Yaddo Artist's Colony in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

For more information, call (302) 831-2361.