Eric Miller has published eight books. Some are prose, some are verse, a number are translations. The most recent of the translations is Rapture of the Depths, by Bettina Klix. He is working even now on a novel set in eighteenth-century Canada, and has already long passed the thousand-page mark. He has worked as a field ornithologist.

Just yesterday (November 9, 2011) he was reading from books by Lisa Robertson, Max Beerbohm, Ovid, Cicero, Euclid, Elizabeth Simcoe, the Comte de Buffon, Charles Dickens, Shakespeare, Henry Green, Homer and Alexander Pope. This is not intended as exemplary or symbolic. But do read Lisa Robertson.

Advice: Aim to write what only you can write. That may take decades. Don’t be discouraged—even by us. (If it comes to that.)