More Than You Ever Wanted to Know....
Ann became a writer the year she discovered Sister Sheila had hair. She was in fifth grade at St. Hugh’s Catholic School in Miami, knee deep in nouns and verbs, when Sister Sheila walked through the door in a new habit that showed two inches of mouse brown hair threaded with silver. Thanks to Sister’s jump-start, Ann went on to earn a BA in Creative Writing from Ashland University (OH).
Ann writes fiction full-time. Kicking Eternity won First Place, Long Contemporary in the 2009 Romance Writers of America Touched By Love Contest. She is currently plotting her fifth novel. Ann's work appears in magazines, newspapers, and a literary magazine. She founded Broads and Novels writers' group in Gilbert, Arizona. Working in public relations for Ashland University, she wrote press releases, features, and produced staff newspapers. She is a constant student of writing craft books and has attended numerous writers' conferences.
Ann speaks in venues including national conventions, churches, and countless teen groups. She guest lectures on writing and life issues to undergraduates in four Phoenix colleges each semester.
Ann writes fiction full-time. Kicking Eternity won First Place, Long Contemporary in the 2009 Romance Writers of America Touched By Love Contest. She is currently plotting her fifth novel. Ann's work appears in magazines, newspapers, and a literary magazine. She founded Broads and Novels writers' group in Gilbert, Arizona. Working in public relations for Ashland University, she wrote press releases, features, and produced staff newspapers. She is a constant student of writing craft books and has attended numerous writers' conferences.
Ann speaks in venues including national conventions, churches, and countless teen groups. She guest lectures on writing and life issues to undergraduates in four Phoenix colleges each semester.
Adrift...
Ann's family lived on a sailboat in Florida for a few years. Less idyllic than it sounds, the sailing years ended in her parents' divorce. The shipwreck of her family drove Ann to search for deeper meaning in life.
Her affinity with unfulfilled young people has been put to good use at teen camps for decades, as a substitute public high school teacher, and, of course, in her writing and speaking.
Her affinity with unfulfilled young people has been put to good use at teen camps for decades, as a substitute public high school teacher, and, of course, in her writing and speaking.
Family...
Thanks to Ann’s kids—three sons, a daughter, and a daughter-in-law (21 to 28-year-olds)--and a menagerie of issue-laden friends, there is always enough drama to fuel Ann's next book.
The Miller clan migrated from Indianapolis in 1998 to the East Valley of Phoenix. When she isn’t writing or muddling through yet another crisis, you’ll find Ann hiking the nearby mountains with her pastor husband of thirty-one years.
