Nicole Miller’s essay, “Last Night at the Breakers,” won the Dorothy Cappon Prize in 2014, and will appear in the Spring, 2015 issue of New Letters. An excerpt from her novel,"Mack's Misery," is forthcoming in the DC Women Writers' Anthology,Abundant Grace, edited by Richard Peabody. Nicole's short fiction has been published twice in The May Anthology of Short Stories, edited by Jill Paton Walsh and Sebastian Faulks. She received an M.Phil in Victorian Literature from Lincoln College, Oxford, a PhD in English at University College, London and an MFA at Emerson College, Boston, where she held the Graduate Fellowship in Creative Writing. At The Oxford English Dictionary, she has worked as a scholarly reader in the etymology division since 2002. She edits faculty manuscripts in Harvard’s English Department and teaches the British novel at Politics and Prose in Washington D.C. She also leads fiction workshops at Grub Street in Boston and The Writer's Center in Bethesda, MD, and is an emerging writer in residence at Kingston University, Kingston-upon-Thames, UK.