Jennifer Miller

Jennifer Miller is the author of five critically-acclaimed books, Inheriting the Holy

Land, The Year of the Gadfly, The Heart You Carry Home, Mr. Nice Guy and First Generation. Today

Miller is a regular contributor to The New York Times and The Washington Post. She has

reported extensively on teenagers and campus life and, more broadly, on disenfranchised

communities, including military veterans, formerly incarcerated individuals and the rural

working class. She has taught undergraduate writing courses at Columbia and has been a

thesis advisor at both the Columbia School of the Arts and the Columbia Journalism

School. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two sons. byjennifermiller.com