Dwight D. Miller

Author Dwight D Miller is passionate about people living life, the ugly struggles, failures, misery, imperfections, growth, helping others, friendship, successes, true love, happiness, life and death. The older I become the more spiritual growth I experience and the more intuitive I become. Writing is a spiritually delicious experience for me. The art of creation grows us exponentially. I feel connected and alive as I weave and live the experiences of every character.

A father of four children, I currently have three teenage daughters I share time with in Gilbert, Arizona, and a six-year old son in Gainesville, Florida. The girls have softened me over the years and the insight into what it’s like to be a woman in our society makes me want to include strong female characters in my writing.

I grew up in west Phoenix, attended Moon Valley High School and then Arizona State University with a BS in Finance and a post-baccalaureate Certificate in Accounting. As you might imagine, writing is a magnificent escape from my left-brained and busy routine. As my children are becoming young adults I’m finding more refreshing time for personal growth again.

I had always flirted with the idea of writing a book but I thought that it would be a gigantic waste of time and didn’t give it serious consideration. During the most challenging time in my life I found myself seeking meaning, seeking answers. As I was turning forty I was going through divorce a second time, I was separated cross-country from my newborn son, my father was dying of cancer at the young age of fifty-eight and I was enduring fourteen months of physical therapy to recover from sciatica from a car accident.

There’s something about real struggle in life and how people respond. While I wouldn’t readily volunteer to go through those things again I am forever deeply grateful. It was the intense inferno that forged the new man I am today and the even better man I will be tomorrow. I learned to better listen to all things in life. I learned more about what really matters. I learned about true friendship and compassion. I learned to see all the blessings I have in my life and to be thankful for them. For the first time I could see how people and events were introduced into my life just when I needed them.

I met a lot of wonderful people who helped me and healed me. I learned that what separates many of us from the homeless person on the street corner holding a cardboard sign is very little, perhaps just one job, one boss, one friend or family member in our lives who helped us out when we had no other way. I learned what it’s like to be in pain 24/7. I saw some people in physical therapy who seemed to have given up. I found a determined resolve in myself that could move mountains, and one of the first things I decided was to write a book.

My hope as a writer is simple. I hope that my work helps you experience a small part of the many facets of life, that it helps you feel alive, helps you think and expand in some small way.

My hope as a human being is also simple. I hope that you choose to focus on what really matters and live life like it’s meant to be lived.