KSFR RADIO 101.1 FM SANTA FE NM
Producer and Host: Abigail Adler
Guest: Mary Miller
Biloxi, Mississippi- a city on the Gulf Coast, in the heart of the deep South. Now, it's a new book- BILOXI , by Author Mary Miller. BILOXI is about a forlorn 63 year old man whose wife has left him, who quit his job in expectation of an inheritance, a man who is a bit confused with his life and how he got there. Then he meets a dog and things change.
Mary Miller's first novel, THE LAST DAYS OF CALIFORNIA, was published in 2014 to wide acclaim. She has published two books of short stories and her fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, the Oxford American, McSweeney's Quarterly, American Short Fiction, and many other publications.
Mary Miller is a native of Mississippi. She was born in Jackson. Miller has a bachelors degree from Mississippi State; She also has a masters and a masters of fine art degrees.
Mary Miller is a former James A. Michener Fellow in Fiction at the University of Texas and John and Renée Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi.
Mary Miller joins us by phone from Oxford Mississippi.