Claire Millikin
Front cover of Dolls by Claire Millikin

Claire Millikin

Claire Millikin is the author of nine books of poetry, published by 2Leaf Press and by Unicorn Press and by Littoral Books, including Dolls, a semi-finalist for the PSV Poetry Book Award for North American Writers and Publishers (2022), and State Fair Animals, a 2019 finalist for the Maine Literary Award for poetry books. Millikin is a 2021 recipient of the Maine Literary Award, as co-editor of Enough! Poems of Resistance and Protest. Millikin teaches art history and American Studies at the University of Maine and at Bates College. Millikin's newest poetry book is Elegiaca Americana, published by Littoral Books.