Every Leaf a Mirror: A Jim Wayne Miller Reader - Paperback

by Morris Allen Grubbs (Editor), Mary Ellen Miller (Editor), Silas House (Afterword by)

Jim Wayne Miller (1936-1996) was a prolific writer, a revered teacher and scholar, and a pioneer in the field of Appalachian studies. During his thirty-three-year tenure at Western Kentucky University, he helped build programs in the discipline in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Ohio, and worked tirelessly to promote regional voices by presenting the work of others as often as he did his own. An innovative poet, essayist, and short story writer, Miller was one of the founding fathers and animating spir

Author Biography

Morris Allen Grubbs is assistant dean in the Graduate School at the University of Kentucky. He is the editor of Home and Beyond: An Anthology of Kentucky Short Stories and Conversations with Wendell Berry.

Mary Ellen Miller, the widow of Jim Wayne Miller, is professor of English at Western Kentucky University. She is the author of The Poet's Wife Speaks.