Angie Miles

This author has been putting words to paper since she could hold a crayon. Yet she is only at the beginning of what she intends to be a prolific writing career. After publication of her book of children’s poetry, Short Pump Bump!, The Beacon described the work as “Fun. Upbeat. Thoughtful.” And in her native Virginia, Richmond Family Magazine touted Angie as “Richmond’s ultimate wordsmith.”

“In addition to working as a broadcast journalist and writer, Miles is a reading specialist who helps local schools foster a love of reading and improve test scores. She earned a graduate degree from UVA in reading, with an emphasis on gifted education and adolescent literacy. But she says her informal training happened in her ‘home laboratory,’ where she taught her four sons to read before they started kindergarten." Catherine Brown, The Beacon

Angie Miles is also the founder and "reader leader" of HAPPY Reading, a non-profit that finds innovative ways to enhance motivation and literacy skills for all kinds of readers, especially children. Outreach sometimes happens at annual summer reading camps-- which uniquely include and engage readers of all socioeconomic and ability levels and with varied interests-- but also in unexpected settings like homeless shelters, jails, laundromats and hospitals.

If you love story, art, phonics, word play, lifelong learning, daydreaming and creative play, then you and Angie may be speaking the same language. And if you are convinced that great books are great friends, that literacy can solve the world's toughest challenges, and that reading mentors can be powerful helpers, then you and she are most definitely on the same page.

While reading is a serious matter, it can serve us best when it's just plain fun. Angie hopes you will enjoy her books, including Short Pump Bump! and A Gift for Trevor. Author Angie's children's shelf will grow in 2026 to include Lucy Likes to Draw and The Present: A Caleb and Dad Story. The Short Pump Bump! sequel, Spring Zing!, premieres in 2027, along with a chapter book series to encourage all kinds of readers. Angie is working on a plethora of fiction and non-fiction for general adult audiences, as well-- topics to include history, culture, politics, spirituality and much more. Whatever you choose, Angie wishes you HAPPY Reading!