Nora Claire Miller (Author)
Nora Claire Miller is a poet. Their first book Groceries was the winner of the Fonograf Editions Open Genre Contest, selected by Srikanth Reddy, and is forthcoming in fall 2025. Nora's work has recently appeared in The Paris Review, FENCE, and Chicago Review. Nora is based in Western Massachusetts, where they're the editor-in-chief of Ghost Proposal. They have an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a BA from Hampshire College.

"Buckle up, earthlings!!! Nora Claire Miller is taking your data body to the Coral Ridge mall via deep space. They want to show you its habitat. They want you to stare into the compound eye of the machine we pay to watch us. Hey scantron crucible, hey wheel of fortune! Hey paper world, these words are scratched into the cloud that's been messing with your head. Oh no! has been talking things over with Oh yes! Groceries is a breathtaking debut."--Elizabeth Willis

"Form is a word that's preoccupied poets since time immemorial. The shapes that proliferate throughout Miller's Groceries make form new. Not only literary form, but that, too."--Srikanth Reddy

"A book is a box with emptiness in it: □. This is a book. An author is university with rain inside it. This book is written by Nora Claire Miller. Who is Nora Claire Miller? 'my name is nonce, my name is nobody, who the hell are you.' That's what they say in the book they wrote, which is called Groceries. Groceries is a book with emptiness in it, empty boxes, universities, rain, human beings. They look like this: □□□□□. Who the hell am I, Nora Claire Miller asks me. I am a character that my phone cannot recognize: □. There is a book here called Groceries and Nora Claire Miller is its author. Its reader is an empty box, a university, a curtain of rain, a human being. If you are one or more of those things, please check the box: □."--Toby Altman, author of Discipline Park

Publisher: Fonograf Editions

Pub date: 2025-10-21

Length: 94 pages