Margot Miller grew up in Ohio, New York's Westchester County and on Mackinac Island, Michigan. She served in the Peace Corps (TEFL Niger 1972-74) and also has lived in Nice (France), British Columbia, and Maryland. She earned a Master of Arts in Counseling in 1977, another Master of Arts, in French language and Literature in 1996, and a Ph. D. in French literature in 2001. After working in several universities and colleges doing sabbatical replacements she turned to writing fiction and poetry, and more recently to painting. She teaches contemporary French women writers in translation and other fiction, often by women writers but not exclusively, for the International Academy of Learning (Continuing Education) at Chesapeake College. She was a fiction editor at The Delmarva Review from 2007-2012.