Robert Miltner was born in Cleveland and raised in Avon Lake, along Ohio�s North Coast. He has lived in these Ohio cities; Cincinnati, Steubenville, Lakewood, and now Canton. He has attended Xavier University for a B.A., John Carroll University for an M.Ed., and Kent State University for a Ph.D. He is associate professor of English at Kent State University at Stark where he teaches creative writing and literature. He is coordinator and on the poetry faculty of the Northeast Ohio MFA in Creative Writing Consortium Program (NEOMFA). He has been an active advocate for peace and justice. His poems, fiction, and essays have appeared widely in a variety of literary magazines, chapbooks, and journals. He is co-founder of the International Raymond Carver Society and edits The Raymond Carver Review.
Robert Miltner's And Your Bird Can Sing�is a collection of short stories full of the sweet melancholy of sad songs, with moments of crystalline prose and poetry that illustrate the complexities of ordinary lives. Miltner is forgiving, kind and honest. These voices ring true. They haunt. He's a writer who finds the heart of a story and pares away the rest.�I love the very short ones, and the longer ones too, written with such heart and beauty. - Sarah Willis, author of Some Things That Stay
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