Nancy Miller Gomez

Nancy Miller Gomez earned a BA from the University of California, San Diego, a JD from the University of San Diego, and an MFA in writing from Pacific University.

Miller Gomez is the author of Inconsolable Objects (YesYes Books, 2024), winner of the 2025 Paterson Prize in Poetry, and Punishment (Rattle Chapbook Series, 2018). Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry, Best New Poets, Prairie Schooner, Alaska Quarterly Review, Adroit Journal, LitHub, New Ohio Review, Massachusetts Review, and The Hopkins Review, among other publications. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Jentel Foundation in Wyoming. 

Miller Gomez cofounded the Poetry in the Jails program, an organization that provides writing workshops to incarcerated writers, and has taught poetry in Salinas Valley State Prison, the Santa Cruz County Jails, the Santa Cruz County Juvenile Hall, and as part of Cornell University’s Prison Education Program. 

Miller Gomez has worked as an attorney and a TV producer. Originally from Kansas, she now lives in Northern California, where she serves as the poet laureate of Santa Cruz County through 2026.