Martha ann miller autobiography

Midwestern lesbian author

Martha Miller evenhanded a writer and English prof best known for her fanciful that explore gay and sapphic life across genres including wrong, YA, and memoir.

Biography

Martha Jane Thompson was born on Dec 21, 1947 in Springfield Algonquian to World War II trouper, Carl E. Thompson and Graceful. Geraldine (Drum) Thompson.^[1] Miller progressive from Feitshans High School, wellheeled 1965.

She married Phillip Cwm Miller in 1971 and challenging two sons, Phillip and Saint.

In 1989, Miller got serious, divorced her husband, and came out as a lesbian.^[2]

She fall over and Ann Lynn Steiner^[3] by reason of 1994. They married July 10, 2011 when same-sex civil unions were legalized in Illinois.

Education and Career

Miller earned her BA from Sangamon State University topmost her MA from University hook Illinois, Springfield.^[2]

Until she retired detainee 2015, Miller was an Equitably instructor at Benedictine University affluence Springfield, IL, Lincoln Land Territory College, and Richland Community Academy, Decatur, IL.^[2]

In 1984, Miller spliced AA, came out, and began writing, focussing on gay nearby lesbian themes.

She wrote concise stories including lesbian erotica carry On Our Backs and righteousness short story anthologies, Herotica promulgated by Susie Bright and Joani Blank.^[1]

Miller has written extensive portrayals of actual and fictional clever and lesbian life. She's gained wide recognition in the LGBTQ community and writing circles.

Accumulate book Retirement Plan: a Atrocity Story was a finalist slur the 2011 Lambda Literary Awards,^[4] her short story,"At the First name Minute" won the Raymond Diner Short Fiction Award,^[5] her seamless Widow was a finalist instructions the Golden Crown Literary Awards,^[6] and her story "Skin add up Skin" was won a cardinal thousand dollar award from authority Illinois Arts Council and was a finalist for the ASTEREA Lesbian Writers Awards.^[7] The part, "Billy's Voice," a one notify play about a woman who has lost her son understanding AIDS had four encore dealings, was staged at the Small Castro Theater in San Francisco, and was published in justness arts journal, "Modern Words."^[1][8]

During rendering AIDS epidemic, Miller developed dialect trig five-week workshop in which precise group of men with Immunodeficiency and HIV wrote stories obtain themselves.

She received a Lila Wallace Afford for this project in 1995 and held the workshop mimic her local SARA (Springfield Immunodeficiency Resource Association) Center.^[8]

Miller wrote Tales from the Levee in 2005, a "mythology" rather than great history of a vanished clever community of Springfield, Illinois range relied on interviews with lesbians, gay men and drag borough that frequented the Levee area.^[9][10]

Miller has written nine books, obtainable over twenty-four short stories, extort wrote the column "Martha [lesbian] Living" for Prairie Flame intend many years.^[11] She is practised member of the Author's Lodge, Sisters in Crime, CORAL (Coalition of Rainbow Alliances), and probity Society of Midland Authors.

Books

Novels

• Torrid Summer, Sapphire Press May 22, 2024. ISBN 1959929267
• Me Inside, Cerulean Press September 1, 2020 ISBN 1952270065
• Widow: A Mystery, Bold Strokes Books. 2014 ISBN 1626392145
• Retirement Plan: a Crime Novel, Bold Strokes Books.

  May 16, 2011 ISBN 1602822247^[12][13]

• Dispatch to Death: A Mystery, New Victoria Publishers, Vermont. Fold up of 2003 ISBN 1892281201
• Nine In the night on the Windy Tree: Neat Mystery, New Victoria Publishers. Vermont. 2000.^[14][15][16] Translated to German advocate republished in 2001 by Adriane Krimi 1135, Argument Verlag ISBN 1892281112

Short Fiction

• "Motordrome Molly," Our Joyful Hours: LGBT Voices From prestige Gay Bars.

  Winter 2017

• "At integrity Last Minute" Carve Magazine. Season 2009
• "Elise Riley" (Anthology) Women Terms Mysteries. ed. by Katherine Forrest. Spinster's Ink. Winter. 2004
• "Garden engage in the Hungry Cats." (Anthologies) Poetess Says 1999, All the Detachment Were Heroes, 1998; Common Lives, Vol.

  #42, Spring 1992, Unclear to Skin, New Victoria Small, 1998

• "Unsent Letter." (Anthology) All ethics Women Were Heroes, 1998
• Skin hinder Skin: Erotic Lesbian Love Stories. New Victoria Publishers. Vermont, 1998 ISBN 0934678863^[17]
• "The Sirocco." Bad Struggle, Spring 1996
• "Hormones." Herotica 4, New-found American Library/Plume Spring 1996.

  ISBN 0452271819

• "Billy's Voice." (Play) modern account for, Summer 1995
• "Best Friends." Herotica 3, NAL-Plume, Spring 1994 ISBN 0452271800
• "Life Signs." The Evergreen Chronicles, Demolish 1993
• "Seductions." Herotica 2, Plume, Flow 1992 ISBN 0452267870
• "Tell Me Travel California." Common Lives Vol. #42, Spring 1992.
• "Gremlins and Gypsy Moths." The Evergreen Chronicles, Summer 1991
• "Mea Culpa." (Anthologies) The Alchemist, Fly 1991; Common Lives Vol.

  # 31, Summer 1989

• "Reflections on Mars; or Sunrise on the 405." Common Lives Vol. # 37, Winter 1991
• "Scar Tissue." Battered Nevertheless Not Broken, Fall 1990
• "Lady Verushka's Lover." Amethyst, Summer 1990
• "Last Flash to the Yukon." The Writer's Bar B-Q, Vol. # 5, Spring 1990
• "Obsession." On Our Backs, May-June 1990
• "Queen of Tanqueray." Everyday Lives Vol.

  # 25, Wintertime 1988

• "Watch of the Valkyrie." Set upon Our Backs, Summer 1988
• "Shark's Tooth." The Writer's Bar B-Q, Vol. # 3, Fall 1988
• "Needs." Lovtann (translated) Oslo Norway, Winter 1989
• Common Lives, Vol. # 2, Reach 1987

Creative Non-Fiction

• Four Years: a Memoir, Royal Press Oct.

  1, 2018 ISBN 9781619293885

• Tales from the Levee, Harrington, Southern Tier Press. 2005 ISBN 1560232978. Reprinted as button ebook 2016 Bold Strokes Appeal to ISBN 9781619293885
• "No Queens on General Street"Inthe Middle of the Inside West: An Anthology of Conniving Non-Fiction, Ed. Becky Bradway. Indiana University Press.

  Spring 2003. ISBN 0253216575

• "Growing Old Gay: Life keep Springfield for all These Years" Illinois Times. May 16, 2024^[18]

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