Lynn C. Miller

Lynn C. Miller lives in Albuquerque and is a novelist and playwright, performer, and educator. Her published novels are The Lost Archive, The Unmasking, The Day After Death, The Fool’s Journey, and Death of a Department Chair. Find Your Story, Write Your Memoir (written with Lisa Lenard-Cook) came out in March 2013 from the University of Wisconsin Press. Her plays have been produced in Dublin, Austin, Tulsa, Albuquerque, Provincetown, Yaddo, and elsewhere. She has a B.A. from the University of North Dakota in English and theater, an M.A. from Northwestern University in performance studies, and a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California in communication and performance. She has taught writing and performance at Penn State University, The University of Southern California, and the University of Texas at Austin, where she was Professor of Theatre and Dance. She has performed the lives of women in history (Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, Victoria Woodhull, and Katherine Anne Porter), and has appeared as a guest artist at many universities and art festivals. She learned about writing through adapting and directing fiction and poetry for the stage.