Thaïs Miller grew up in Los Angeles, surrounded by movie theater marquees. After living in Washington, DC, New York City, and San Francisco, she moved to Little Rock, Arkansas, where she currently works as an assistant professor of creative writing (fiction) at the University of Central Arkansas. She believes in life-long learning, and her creative writing and critical research on Jewish humor, gender, film, and new media are intertwined. In her thirties, she learned Yiddish (her grandmother’s first language) to write Fail Better Soon, a novel about a woman haunted by her grandmother’s ghost.
Poetics Today, Studies in Popular Culture, Jewish Film and New Media, Nashim, the Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, and the Journal of Jewish Identities have published her scholarly writing and book reviews. Her short stories, flash fiction, poetry, plays, creative nonfiction essays, and interviews have been featured in Nautilus, CRAFT, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Common, The Jewish Review of Books, Entropy, andSo It Goes: The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library, among other journals. She is the author of the novel Our Machinery (2008) and the short story collection The Subconscious Mutiny and Other Stories (2009). She is also editing an anthology under contract with Bloomsbury Academic called Reclaiming Creative Critical Writing Ancestors.
She earned her PhD in Literature with a Creative/Critical Writing Concentration at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2024. She received her MA in Individualized Study: Creative Writing for Social Activism from New York University’s Gallatin School in 2011. She has volunteered as an editorial reader for the Center for Fiction, the nonprofit literary magazine One Story, and Francis Ford Coppola’s literary magazine, Zoetrope: All-Story. Her writing is also informed by her experiences screening films and writing entries for the digital catalogue of the Jewish Film Institute’s San Francisco Jewish Film Festivals. https://thaismiller.wordpress.com/
Regal House is proud to bring you Thaïs Miller’s Fail Better Soon in the spring of 2028.
