She was a professor of English and taught in the graduate creative writing program at Indiana University in Bloomington for twenty years.
[4][5] She believes that animals are not "just property," as the law defines them, but deserving of a different moral status that acknowledges their sentience, intelligence, emotionality, and capacity for happiness.
Her second story collection Water (Sarabande Books), 2008, won the Mary McCarthy Prize for Short Fiction.
Miller’s prose is vivid and multifaceted yet possesses an admirable restraint that enhances the emotional honesty----and risk..." (Booklist).
[4][7][8] A novel, Stopping for Green Lights, expanded one of the stories in The Nature of Longing and explored in more depth the complications of interracial friendships and racial categories during a tumultuous time.