Her poems were included in Midland, Lyric West, American Poetry, Pagan, Penwoman, Suburban Life, and other magazines and newspapers.

[6] In 1923, Miller was appointed Poet Laureate of Colorado by Governor William Ellery Sweet, a position held for life.

She organized the state branch of National League of American Pen Women, and became its honorary president.

[3] Nellie Burget Miller died at St. Anthony's Hospital, in Denver, Colorado, on June 4, 1952.

[2] In 1922, Miller won first prize for a children's play, offered by the Pasadena Community Players.

The play was published in Theater Magazine, and as a result, was put on in five different states and Cuba, in the spring of 1923.