Matt Miller

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Matt Miller is a native Nebraskan now serving as Associate Professor of English at College of the Ozarks in southwest Missouri. His debut essay collection, Leaves of Healing: A Year in the Garden (Belle Point Press, 2024), journeys through the garden year and the church year together. He is a contributing editor for Front Porch Republic and also writes a newsletter at habitation.substack.com.

Recent Essays

Learning to Die in the Garden

Matt Miller - July 15, 2019

I’m prone to say that the gardening year resembles nothing so much as a succession of heartbreaks, and while it’s possible that this sentiment...

Reading Seed Catalogs for Pleasure and Profit

Matt Miller - March 27, 2019

Gardeners are a modest and sober breed, not much given to the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, or the pride...

On the Costs and Rewards of Planting Trees

Matt Miller - January 2, 2019

I have just planted two apple trees from what my local nursery calls their “Posterity Collection,” heritage varieties grafted onto a slower-growing but durable and...