Jim Miller is an author, a native San Diegan and a graduate of the MFA program at San Diego State University. In addition to his MFA in fiction, Miller has a Ph.D. in American culture studies from Bowling Green State University. Miller teaches English, humanities and labor studies at San Diego City College. As a young man, Miller was a bouncer, a factory worker, a warehouseman and a laborer in his late father’s home repair business. A proud union member, Jim serves on the executive board of AFT Local 1931 and does political action work. Miller lives in the Golden Hill neighborhood of San Diego with his wife, Kelly Mayhew, and their son, Walter. Miller’s novels include “Last Days in Ocean Beach” (SD City Works Press), “Flash” (AK Press, 2010) and “Drift” (University of Oklahoma Press, 2007). He is also co-author of a history of San Diego, “Under the Perfect Sun: The San Diego Tourists Never See” (with Mike Davis and Kelly Mayhew on The New Press, 2003) and a cultural studies book on working class sports fandom, “Better to Reign in Hell: Inside the Raiders Fan Empire” (with Kelly Mayhew on The New Press, 2005). Miller is also the editor of “Sunshine/Noir: Writing from San Diego and Tijuana” (SD City Works Press, 2005) and “Democracy in Education; Education for Democracy: An Oral History of the American Federation of Teachers, Local 1931” (AFT 1931, 2007). He has published poetry, fiction and non-fiction in a wide range of journals and other publications, and has a weekly column in “Words and Deeds."
