Douglas W. Milliken

Praise for CREAM RIVER

“I believe Doug Milliken has a firm grasp of life’s little traumas. He takes his chunk of loving meat and hangs it from a butcher’s hook on display for the world to read.”
—from the foreword by Ben Trickey, singer/songwriter

“Cream River [...] is still on my mind, as if its characters were hanging around in the dark shadows of my consciousness. [...] I was blown away by “Color Wheel.” I also loved how the stories had a series of sometimes evident and sometimes subterranean connections that became especially intriguing as the cycle approached its end. I highly recommend reading Cream River.”
—Jonathan Weisberg, The Stoneslide Corrective

"I loved every story, every word."
—Erin Sprinkle, singer/songwriter

Praise for TO SLEEP AS ANIMALS

“[...] it is impossible not to be the weird kid in Milliken's Reno. To Sleep as Animals is a mystery about characters succumbing to their spaces, how such a rugged landscape sustains so many strange and dangerous lives.”
—The Collagist

“A disturbance of a very specific flavor [...] Milliken's writing is urgent yet finely considered—a literate pleasure.”
—Carl Skoggard, translator of Walter Benjamin's Berlin Childhood circa 1900.

“A distinctive and often vertiginously frightening psychological landscape [...] bracingly disturbing.”
—Megan Grumbling, author of Persephone in the Late Anthropocene.

Praise for BRAND NEW MOON

“These stories [...] glow with some sort of holy light, as if every moment were magic, like footage of your family picnic on super 8.”
—The Portland Phoenix

“Seriously the funniest thing I have ever read. I was laughing so much that [my wife] yelled at me. Probably because she was sleeping. And it was 2 AM.”
—Derek Kimball, Last House Productions

Praise for WHITE HORSES

“Douglas W. Milliken takes his time unveiling the savoring of the moment in a narrative of extremely gracious intimacy. The dignified personal. Expert surreal grounded prose. Pragmatic poetics that serve the whole. This man is a master of simile. And it never gets old because the associations are always complex and unexpected. Worked accuracy but seamlessly so. Wow throughout the heartbreaking sensuality. Its core a felled forest of need. The title story, ‘White Horses,’ cannot be improved, which is another way of saying it is perfect.”
—Melody Sumner Carnahan, co-founder of Burning Books.