Amy Miller

Amy Miller was born in NYC and raised in the suburbs. Her senior year at Barnard College, she won first prize in the Elizabeth Janeway Fiction Writing Competition. From that time, she’s written, poetry, essays, stories, mostly kept in cardboard boxes in the attic. Her first novel, Heartprint, originally began as a hand-written fictional diary that accompanied her through the loss of a loved one.

She is currently working on a non-fiction book called Three Silences, describing her experience with cancer.

Amy is a sister, a mother to two grown children and their spouses, a grandmother to five rescue dogs, one toddler with another on the way

Her past work roles: social worker, therapist, administrator in a graduate school program, adjunct professor. She once owned and worked a small farm in upstate New York and now eats a plant-based diet for her health, the animals and the environment.