Janna Miller
Librarian, mother, and minor trickster, Janna Miller is published in SmokeLong Quarterly, Cheap Pop, Whale Road Review, Necessary Fiction, Best Microfiction 2023, and others. Her story collection, All Lovers Burn at the End of the World, is forthcoming from SLJ Editions in 2024. Generally, if the toaster blows up, it is not her fault.
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Better Homes and Gardens
From space you can see our growing thing, our temple surrounded by trees and snaking vines, green on the satellite picture, a bump of human life beneath. Whatever is cut grows back thick as pipes and car tires. We have learned not to cut, to let the apricot struggle toward the sun, the fig slide […]
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On Growing Words, Invasive Vines, and Forced Metaphors
Janna Miller, the author of the nonfiction piece Better Homes and Gardens featured in Volume 72.2 of Shenandoah, writes about the relationship between writing, wild words, and invasive vines in this piece. Read Better Homes and Gardens here. Some words are true and grow wildly and without restraint. The wisteria vine will climb over the door […]