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Thais Miller

She/her | Writer, assistant professor | Little Rock, AR, United States

Thaïs Miller is an assistant professor of creative writing (fiction) at the University of Central Arkansas. She is the author of the novel Our Machinery (2008) and the short story collection The Subconscious Mutiny and Other Stories (2009). 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 in 2011.

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Books

Selected work

Cover of Jewish Review of Books

Like a Pharaoh

Jewish Review of Books, 2024

NonfictionEssayCreative Nonfiction
Cover of HOOT

Descent

HOOT, 2012

FictionFlashSpeculative Fiction
Cover of Vol. 1 Brooklyn

The King’s Wings: A Contemporary Fairy Tale for New York City

Vol. 1 Brooklyn, 2012

FictionShort StoryFairy Tales
Cover of Nautilus

Magnets

Nautilus, 2014

FictionShort StorySpeculative Fiction
Cover of The Tishman Review

Gates, Canals, and Veins

The Tishman Review, 2016

FictionShort StoryHistorical Fiction
Cover of The Furious Gazelle

Der Wechselbalg in Tribeca

The Furious Gazelle, 2016

FictionShort StoryFantasy
Cover of Vol. 1 Brooklyn

A Classic Rock Funeral Dirge

Vol. 1 Brooklyn, 2016

FictionShort StoryLiterary
Cover of The Furious Gazelle

The Deep Fat Fryer Incident of February 2012

The Furious Gazelle, 2017

FictionShort StoryHumor
Cover of So It Goes: Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library

Late Arrivals

So It Goes: Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library, 2018

FictionShort StoryScience Fiction
Cover of CRAFT

Passing

CRAFT, 2019

FictionShort StoryDystopian
Cover of Nautilus

The Ghostwriter

Nautilus, 2023

FictionShort StoryScience Fiction