She was accepted into the University of Iowa's writer's workshop, but she deferred enrollment in the Master of Fine Arts program there for financial reasons.
One of the special's producers, Lorne Michaels, was assembling the writing staff for Saturday Night Live, and he asked Miller to join.
[1] Miller left the SNL staff in 1979 to work on Radner's one-woman Broadway revue and movie, Gilda Live.
[5] After more theatrical work, she returned to weekly television as a producer on The Tracey Ullman Show, for which she won another Emmy for Outstanding Writing in a Variety or Music Program in 1990.
[1] Miller is the author of How to Be a Middle-Aged Babe (published in 2007), "a bawdy, smart satire of earnest women's magazines and self-help books".