Celia H. Miles

Celia Miles, a native of western North Carolina, lives, writes, and edits from Asheville. She attended Brevard and Berea Colleges and has graduate degrees from UNC-Chapel Hill and IUP in Pennsylvania. She taught at Brevard College and retired from Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College. She writes in various genres and her fiction—all women-oriented—reflects her interests in old grist mills and Neolithic sites around the world. Her published works include ten novels and two short story collections—available online and in paperback.

A new novel, Sarranda's Legacy is the final in a trilogy chronicling a mountain woman's life from pre-Civil War years to the early 1880s: Sarranda: Appalachian Woman (2006); Sarranda's Heart: A Love Story of Place (2013); and Sarranda's Legacy (2018).

Her three clean and cozy mysteries feature intrepid Marcy Dehanne, an instructor turned grist mill consultant, who finds that old mills too often harbor a dead body: The Body at Wrapp's Mill; The Body at StarShine Mill; and, 2020, The Skeleton at the Old Painted Mill.