Ben Miller

Ben was born in Franklin, a small town nestled in the hills of Northwestern Pennsylvania. The son of a funeral director and a psychologist, he grew up with a sense of the macabre as mundane and a fascination with people's interactions with each other and the world around them, especially during times of hardship.

After high school he left his rural roots to enroll at Yale University, where he majored in Psychology. Upon graduation he found himself wanting to pursue a career in which he could apply his skills in the service of others. After completing his pre-medicine classes in a post-baccalaureate program, he matriculated to the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

While earning his medical degree, his writing took a back seat. It wasn't until he began his practice as a hospital-based pediatrician and diagnostic referral specialist that his career vision began to come full circle. He realized that he could utilize his creative passion for writing to address some of society's ills that he witnessed on a daily basis. In 2013 he completed his final draft of A Bustle in the Hedgerow, a modern-day thriller interweaving two mysteries regarding the murder of young children that unfold over two consecutive summers in the mid-Atlantic.

Ben currently resides with his wife and two daughters in a suburb of Pittsburgh. He continues to work on his next novel while teaching and practicing pediatrics.