Florence Miller, born in Newark, New Jersey, taught 
English and creative writing at McClymonds High 
School in Oakland, California and advised their literary 
magazine, Flamingo. The Emmy award winning 
documentary, Can You Hear Me, was based on her 
students' poems.  She is the author of Upriver: New and 
Selected Poems and, with Alexis Rotella, Eleven Renga,
 Yes, and A String of Monarchs. She is co-author of My 
Dreaming Waking Life and co-editor of Dreaming of 
Wings and State of Peace: The Women Speak. 
Her awards include Editor's Choice at the Paterson 
Literary Review Allen Ginsberg Poetry Contest, the San
Francisco Dancing Poetry Contest, and an Ina Coolbrith
Poetry Award. Now retired from teaching, she is active in
 the San Francisco Bay Area poetry community.