Jennifer Miller

New York, USA

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About Me

Author • Journalist • Content Strategy and Pitch Master

🎯 Snapshot

Jennifer Miller is a seasoned journalist and author with six published books spanning fiction and nonfiction, and a prolific portfolio of journalism in top publications such as The New York Times and The Washington Post. Her expertise covers narrative development, plot and character shaping, manuscript editing, pitching articles/books, reporting, interviewing, and podcast production. She has taught creative writing and journalism at Columbia University and also leads a nonprofit storytelling team. A native of Washington, D.C., she now lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two sons.

🧭 What She Brings to Uptales Seekers

  • Mastery of narrative structure, character development, and storytelling craft
  • Guidance on pitching and publishing for articles, essays, and books
  • Deep experience in reporting, interviewing, and narrative nonfiction
  • Skill in podcast story development and audio-based storytelling
  • A teacher’s clarity and a journalist’s precision, honed through years of professional practice

🛠️ Background & Experience

  • Author of six books — three novels and three nonfiction works — published by major houses including Farrar, Straus & Giroux, St. Martin’s Press, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and Ballantine Books
  • Journalism regularly featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and numerous other outlets
  • Creator and producer of Blood Will Tell, a six-part narrative nonfiction podcast forthcoming from Campside Media and Wondery
  • Former instructor of creative writing and journalism at Columbia University
  • Washington, D.C. native; now based in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and two sons

✅ Work With Jennifer On

  • Developing and strengthening your story arc, narrative voice, and characters
  • Crafting compelling book proposals, pitches, and publication-ready submissions
  • Reporting- and research-based storytelling (true-life, investigative, or narrative nonfiction)
  • Turning an idea into a written work, article series, or podcast narrative
  • Editorial coaching and manuscript refinement for clarity, impact, and structure

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Past Works

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Rising Class

By Jennifer Miller This eye-opening YA narrative nonfiction follows three first-generation college students as they navigate their first year—and ultimately a global pandemic. Making it through the first year of college is tough. What makes it even tougher is being the first in your family to do so. Who can you turn to when you need advice? Rising Class follows three first-generation freshmen, Briani, Conner, and Jacklynn, as they not only experience their first semester of college, but the COVID-19 pandemic that turned their Spring semester upside down. From life in the ivy league to classes at a community college, this nonfiction book follows these students' challenges, successes, and dreams as they tackle their first year of college and juggle responsibilities to their families back home. Eye-opening and poignant, Jennifer Miller writes a narrative nonfiction story that speaks to new beginnings, coming of age, and perseverance.

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Inheriting the Holy Land

By Jennifer Miller By helping these young voices be heard, she knew she could reveal something vitally new and deeply challenging about the future of this torn region."

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The Year of the Gadfly

By Jennifer Miller This terrific first novel is a twisted thriller set at a private school where bad things happen to teens on a leafy campus. Part Dead Poets Society, part Heathers. Entirely addictive.--Glamour

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Mr. Nice Guy

By Jennifer Miller "Lucas Callahan, a man who gave up his law degree, fiancée and small-town future for a shot at making it in the Big Apple. He snags an entry-level job at Empire magazine, believing it's only a matter of time before he becomes a famous writer. And then late one night in a downtown bar he meets a gorgeous brunette who takes him home... Carmen Kelly wanted to be a hard-hitting journalist, only to find herself cast in the role of Empire's sex columnist thanks to the boys' club mentality of Manhattan magazines. Her latest piece is about an unfortunate--and unsatisfying--encounter with an awkward and nerdy guy, who was nice enough to look at but horribly inexperienced in bed. Lucas only discovers that he's slept with the infamous Carmen Kelly--that is, his own magazine's sex columnist!--when he reads her printed take-down. Humiliated and furious, he pens a rebuttal and signs it, "Nice Guy." Empire publishes it, and the pair of columns go viral. Readers demand more. So the magazine makes an arrangement: Each week, Carmen and Lucas will sleep together... and write dueling accounts of their sexual exploits. Lucas only discovers that he's slept with the infamous Carmen Kelly--that is, his own magazine's sex columnist!--when he reads her printed take-down. Humiliated and furious, he pens a rebuttal and signs it, "Nice Guy." Empire publishes it, and the pair of columns go viral. Readers demand more. So the magazine makes an arrangement: Each week, Carmen and Lucas will sleep together... and write dueling accounts of their sexual exploits."--Amazon.

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The Heart You Carry Home

By Jennifer Miller A young woman learns how to confront the lingering consequences of war when she rides along with her distant father and his fellow vets on a cross-country motorcycle trip that will take them away from her new, Iraq-scarred husband and toward a mysterious military cult in the Utah desert.

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