Kathy Miller is a writer living in Syracuse, NY. Kathy started writing poetry as a teenager growing up in a Pennsylvania Dutch farming community in central Pennsylvania. In college she majored in psychology but minored in English and became an assistant in the English department, a fortuitous assignment which led to her involvement in organizing readings on campus by eminent writers and poets of the time.
After receiving a graduate degree, Kathy started pursuing a career as a counselor. She also spent a year as a non-matriculated student in the MFA program in creative writing at the University of Arizona. For the next 35 years Kathy worked as a prevention specialist in a variety of settings in Arizona, California, and New York while also raising a family.
After retirement in 2018, Kathy decided to try her hand at creative writing again, this time focusing on creative nonfiction. She attended classes sponsored by the Downtown Writers’ Center at the Syracuse YMCA, Syracuse OASIS, and Creative Nonfiction magazine, among others. Most of her writing has focused on memoir, including micro-memoir, but she has also dabbled in fiction and poetry.
Kathy’s work has appeared in Persimmon Tree, Writer’s Club, The Ponder Review, Jewish Women of Words, Planet Scum, Stone Canoe and the online version of The New York Times’ Tiny Love Stories. Her latest project is a compilation of short memoirs for an eventual chapbook.