Thaïs Miller is an Assistant Professor of creative writing (fiction) at the University of Central Arkansas. She is the author of the forthcoming novel Fail Better Soon (2028), the novel Our Machinery (2008) and the short story collection The Subconscious Mutiny and Other Stories (2009). She is currently editing the collection Reclaiming Creative Critical Writing Ancestors (Bloomsbury 2028). She earned her PhD in Literature with a Creative/Critical Writing Concentration at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2024. She received her MA in Creative Writing for Social Activism from New York University in 2011. She has volunteered as an editorial reader for the Center for Fiction, the nonprofit literary magazine One Story, and Francis Ford Coppola’s literary magazine, Zoetrope: All-Story.