Wendy Miles has published her work in places such as Prairie Schooner, Tupelo Quarterly, The Chattahoochee Review, Southern Poetry Review and Hunger Mountain. Yona Harvey selected her title poem “Float” as the winner of the 2014 Patricia Dobler Poetry Award. Wendy lives and writes in her native Virginia and has a brilliant little three-legged rescue dog named Sugi. 

In Wendy’s debut collection, FLOAT, a girl navigates illness, death and grief—generations of family trauma. The poems echo traditional forms and range from confessional to elegiac. Set in a rural Virginia landscape dotted with abandoned houses and marked by hayfields and cattle, the book is imbued with memory and spirits of the lost.