Thaïs Miller is a writer, teacher, and editor. She received her PhD in Literature with a Creative/Critical Writing Concentration from the University of California, Santa Cruz in June 2024. Her primary research, writing, and teaching field is late twentieth-century and twenty-first-century American fiction with a focus on the novel and short story forms. She is particularly interested in historiographic and speculative metafiction. Her secondary field is post-Holocaust Jewish novels, short stories, films, and television, with a focus on women writers and Jewish American humor.

She accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Creative Writing (Fiction) in the Department of Film, Theatre, and Creative Writing at the University of Central Arkansas, beginning in the fall of 2024.

She is the author of the novel Our Machinery (2008) and the collection The Subconscious Mutiny and Other Stories (2009). She received her MA in Creative Writing for Social Activism from New York University in 2011 and her BA magna cum laude with Honors in Literature from American University in 2009.

In addition to teaching creative writing at the University of Central Arkansas and the University of California, Santa Cruz, she also taught creative writing and literature at UC Berkeley, UC Berkeley Extension, the Bryant Park Reading Room, and the Gotham Writers Workshop. She has served as an editorial reader for Francis Ford Coppola’s literary magazine, Zoetrope: All-Story, in San Francisco, the Center for Fiction in Manhattan, and the nonprofit literary magazine One Story in Brooklyn.

Contact

thhmille@ucsc.edu