About the author
Elise Frances Miller was born in Los Angeles CA. She is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and holds a Master’s degree in Art History from UCLA. Elise's wide-ranging career includes high school and college teacher, arts critic and reviewer, and communications director at San Diego State University and Stanford University. She wrote in the arts for several well‐known publications, including the Los Angeles Times, Art News, The Reader, and San Diego Magazine, for which she wrote a monthly column. In 1998, she and her husband moved from San Diego to the San Francisco Bay Area, where she enjoys the region’s literary opportunities and her memberships in the San Francisco Writers' Workshop and the California Writers Club, San Francisco/Peninsula Branch.
Two of Elise's short stories have been published in The Sand Hill Review (2007, 2010) for which she served as guest fiction editor in 2008. These were included in the SHR’s tenth anniversary publication, The Best of Sand Hill Review (2012). In addition, a chapter of A Time to Cast Away Stones was selected for inclusion in the 2010 literary journal, Fault Zone, Words from the Edge, and her short story, “Playing with the Rules,” was published in Fault Zone: Stepping Up to the Edge, 2012.