Jim Miller

Jim Miller is the author of the novels 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 (City Works Press, 2005), Sunshine/Noir II: Writing from San Diego and Tijuana (with Kelly Mayhew on City Works Press, 2015), 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 the San Diego Free Press and the OB Rag. Miller is 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. He lives in San Diego with his wife, Kelly Mayhew, and their son, Walter.
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Drift *Limited Quantity*
Author: Jim Miller
Joe Blake is searching for something real in a seemingly depthless world. An alienated, underemployed professor and aspiring poet, Joe roams San Diego in his own personal disquiet and discovers …
- Categories: California: San Diego, Fiction/Biographies, Local Authors.
- Format: Hardcover
- ISBN: 9780806138077
- Year Published: 2007
- Language: English
- Publisher: San Diego City Works Press
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Last Days in Ocean Beach
Author: Jim Miller
Illustrator: Perry Vasquez
Last Days in Ocean Beach is the story of William, a scientist working at the Center for Extinction Studies, a think tank at the College of the Sun funded by …
- Categories: California: San Diego, Fiction/Biographies, Local Authors.
- Format: SC
- Pages: 124
- Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5
- ISBN: 9780976580195
- Year Published: 2018
- Language: English
- Publisher: San Diego City Works Press
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Sunshine/Noir: Writing From San Diego and Tijuana *Out of Print*
Author: Jim Miller
Sunshine/Noir Writing From San Diego and Tijuana is the inaugural book from San Diego’s only literary press, San Diego City Works Press. It contains an innovative mix of fiction, non-fiction, …
- Categories: California: San Diego, Fiction/Biographies, Local Authors.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 220
- Dimensions: 5 x 8
- ISBN: 9780976580102
- Year Published: 2005
- Publisher: San Diego City Works Press
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