Jennifer miller author biography

JENNIFER MILLER IS THE AUTHOR OF FIVE BOOKS: RISING CLASS(FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX, ), MR. NICE GUY (ST. MARTINS, ); THE HEART YOU CARRY HOME (HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT, ); THE YEAR OF THE GADFLY (HMH, ); AND INHERITING THE HOLY LAND (BALLANTINE, ). HER JOURNALISM APPEARS INTHE NEW YORK TIMES, THE WASHINGTON POST AND MANY OTHER PUBLICATIONS. SHE HAS TAUGHT CREATING WRITING AND JOURNALISM AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY. A WASHINGTON, DC NATIVE, SHE LIVES IN BROOKLYN WITH HER HUSBAND AND TWO SONS. 

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Miller grew up in a suburb of Washington, D.C., surrounded by the chaotic politics of the Middle East. Her father was a U.S. State Department negotiator at the Oslo and Camp David peace summits, and dinnertime conversation in the Miller househould often included discussions of the Middle Eastern conflict. But it was when Miller joined Seeds of Peace, a youth program that brings Middle Eastern kids to Maine for intensive sessions of conflict resolution that her real experience with the Middle East began. As she befriended young Palestinians, Israelis, Egyptians, and Jordanians, Miller came to realize that their views were missing from the numerous debates over the Holy Land. By letting these young voices be heard, she knew she could reveal something vitally new and deeply challenging about the future of this torn region. Miller learned fast that it was one thing to hang out at an idyllic camp in Maine and quite another to confront young people on their own turf--in the alleys of East Jerusalem, behind the armed gates of West Bank settlements, in the teeming refugee camps of Gaza. Friendships that had blossomed back in the U.S. withered in the aftermath of yet another suicide bombing. Big-hearted teens on both sides of the conflict shocked Miller with the ferocity of their illusions and the twisted logic of their misconceptions. But she also found rays of hope in places where others had reported only despair--surprising open-mindedness among the ultra-religious, common ground shared by those who had lost loved ones to the violence, a yearning for peace amid the rubble of refugee camps and the shards of bombed cities. A deft writer, she interweaves startlingly candid interviews with the vibrant realities of life in the streets. Just as Miller was forced to confront her biases as an American, a Jew, a woman, and a journalist, so she challenges readers to reexamine th

American circus entertainer, writer and professor

For other people named Jennifer Miller, see Jennifer Miller (disambiguation).

Jennifer Miller (born ) is an American circus entertainer, writer, and professor at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. She has lived with a beard for most of her life. She is a juggler and fire eater. Miller lives in New York City.

Biography

Miller is the youngest daughter of two Quaker professors and grew up in Connecticut and California. Miller became involved in the performing arts and theater while in high school, and was involved in the downtown dance scene in New York in the early s. In her career as a performing artist, which has spanned over 20 years, she has performed with numerous choreographers and dancers, several circus companies, and in the Coney Island SideShow. Miller has also collaborated on theatrical works with Sarah Schulman.

In , she established the acclaimed NYC political performance troupe Circus Amok. She was also a focus of Tami Gold's documentary Juggling Gender, an exploratory piece addressing themes of androgyny, gender classification and identification, feminism, and femaleness through a singular focal character, Jennifer Miller herself. Circus Amok has been the subject of numerous documentary films. Miller is widely recognized for her work and is the recipient of awards including the Obie, Bessie, BAX 10, and, most recently, the Ethyl Eichelberger Award. She currently teaches in New York at Pratt Institute, and has taught at several universities including UCLA, Cal Arts, Scripps College, Trinity/La MaMa Performing Arts Program and NYU.

In , Miller served as a co-hostess to Vaginal Davis' performance piece "Speaking from the Diaphra

Jennifer Miller

Jennifer Miller, is also the author of Inheriting the Holy Land: An American's Search for Hope in the Middle East. She holds a BA from Brown University, an MS in journalism from Columbia, and an MFA in fiction writing from Columbia. Her work has been published in the New York Times, Marie Claire, Men's Health, the Christian Science Monitor, , and others. She is a native of Washington, DC, and currently lives in Brooklyn with all the other writers.

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