He did post-graduate work at Stanford University, where he worked under the distinguished teacher and short story writer Wallace Stegner.
Ziller became a school teacher and later worked as supervisor of IBM operations for the Cornell University Crash Injury Research Program.
His short stories have appeared in such literary periodicals as Yale Review, Kenyon Review, Perspective and others.
In 1960, he published a book of short stories entitled In This World.
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