Emily Jeanne Miller ’95

Emily Jeanne Miller graduated from Princeton University, then worked as a newspaper reporter in the Rocky Mountain West before attending graduate school at the University of Montana, where she earned a Master’s in Environmental Studies. While there, she edited an anthology of writing about the Clark Fork River Basin (“The River We Carry With Us”), and also discovered her passion for fiction writing, which took her to Gainesville, Florida, for an MFA. Her short fiction has appeared in various literary journals, and her first novel, “Brand New Human Being,” was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2012. Her second novel, “The News from the End of the World,” was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2017. She has received fellowships from Yaddo, The MacDowell Colony, the Vermont Studio Center, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and Aspen Words.  She currently lives and writes on Cape Cod with her husband, daughter and dog.