
What writing or other artistic expression has had a profound impact on your writing? I am a photographer, and I do that more than I write.

Things start and end in a certain spot, so I can tell the story from start to finish, then figure out where I want the piece to really begin, and then I start moving things around. How would you characterize your creative process as you worked on this piece? Nonfiction is pretty simple storytelling for me. Though her poetry, essays, and stories have appeared everywhere, she is still satisfaction-less in Baltimore. She is the author of the nonfiction book Let Me Eat Cake: A Celebration of Flour, Sugar, Butter, Eggs, Vanilla, Baking Powder, and a Pinch of Salt (Simon & Schuster, 2009) and the poetry collection BOYGIRLBOYGIRL (Finishing Line Press, 2012). Miller likes to break things and put them back together in a random, yet tasteful, order.

In her interview, Miller discusses her creative process, mosaics, and the word “fuck.”

Miller tells of her decision to live… and how the notes of a song became a mantra she could live by. In “ (No) Satisfaction” ( Issue 2), Leslie F.
