Milliken, Douglas W.: - DOUGLAS W. MILLIKEN is the author of two novels-TO SLEEP AS ANIMALS and OUR SHADOWS' VOICE-as well as several chapbooks and collaborative multimedia projects, including IN THE MINES with the musician Scott Sell and Monolith with the metal smith Cat Bates. He has won numerous awards for his short stories, including Glimmer Train's "Family Matters" contest, a Maine Literary Award for Short Fiction, a Pushcart Prize, and the Stoneslide Corrective's annual Short Story Contest. He is exhausted by the mouse chorus of souls following his heartless kitten through the understory. He lives with his contra-wife in Saco, Maine.