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Jayne Miller (born Jayne Ann Theis, November 24, 1952, Dubuque, Iowa, U.S.A.), retired nurse and tai chi instructor and currently an active landscaper, musician, and poet. Her haiku and senryu have won honors including First Prize in the Anita Sadler Weiss Memorial Haiku Awards (2011); Second Place in the Harold G. Henderson Awards (2012) and an Honorable Mention (2018); Honorable Mentions in the Gerald M. Brady Awards (2013 and 2019); and winner of the Jim Bull Memorial Contest at the Fourth Midwest—Cradle of American Haiku conference in 2014. Miller was coeditor of the anthology The River Knows the Way, which was shortlisted for a Touchstone Distinguished Book Award in 2011. A work of hers was chosen as Favorite Haiku of Issue in Modern Haiku (Autumn 2012). She resides by the Mississippi River in rural Hazel Green, Wisconsin.
Note: This is an abstract of a longer biographical article to come.