Greg Blake Miller is an award-winning writer, editor and teacher. He received Parenting Publications of America's top national honors for his feature and humor writing at OC Family...voir plusGreg Blake Miller is an award-winning writer, editor and teacher. He received Parenting Publications of America's top national honors for his feature and humor writing at OC Family and was later named Nevada's Outstanding Journalist for his work at Vegas Seven. He earned his master's degree in creative writing from the University of Southern California, where he won the prestigious Moses Fiction Prize. A former staff writer for The Moscow Times, Miller has written extensively about Russian history and culture, culminating in Reentry Shock (UMI, 2010). He holds a doctorate in international communication from the University of Oregon, where he also taught writing and media studies. Miller continues to teach creativity and storytelling skills as the director of Olympian Creative Education.
Svetlana Larionova Miller is an illustrator, writer and translator. She has won multiple awards for her illustrations for OC Family, and her work has also appeared in Vegas Seven, Las Vegas Family and Inland Empire Family. She has translated for Russian Studies in Literature as well as for film and television, and has taught linguistics at Oregon's Northwest Christian University. Miller, who has also been honored for her poetry, is working on an illustrated memoir about growing up in the Soviet Union.voir moins