Ciara Darnise Miller, a native of Chicago, holds both an MFA and MA in Poetry and African American/African Diaspora Studies from Indiana University. She also received her BA in Liberal Arts from Sarah Lawrence College. She has published poems and academic essays in such collections and periodicals as The Whiskey of Our Discontent, Break Beat Poets, Mosaic, Fjords Review, African American Review, Callaloo, Muzzle, Alice Walker: Critical Insights, Chorus, and many more.  She currently lives in Chicago where she serves as writing professor at DePaul University, an Afro-American Studies professor at Kennedy King College, and the CEO of Miller’s Learning Center (MLC), a test prep and career-support company.