Bernadette Miller

This writer is looking for an agent.

   Bernadette Miller was born in Newark, New Jersey, but grew up in Crisfield, Maryland, a small town on the Lower Eastern Shore. She graduated from the University of Maryland with a Bachelor of Arts degree in drama, intending to become an actress, and moved to New York City. She met and eventually married an artist who convinced her to give up the theatre and become a professional writer. She'd written short stories, poetry and some novels since childhood. She then studied fiction writing at New York University and The New School for Social Research.
   Bernadette's first published story appeared in Firelands Arts Review (Bowling Green State University, Huron, Ohio). Since then her short stories have appeared in over fifty literary magazines, including, The University of Portland Review; Calliope (Roger Williams College, Rhode Island); Skylark (Purdue University); Jewish Currents (2000); and The Binnacle (Univ. of Maine at Machias.) Her stories have been published online at Pulse, The Moonwort Review, The Pink Chameleon, and the Copperfield Review among others. She was interviewed and read one of her published stories on Manhattan Neighborhood Network, New York's Channel 34. She has been a featured reader at the Beaux Arts Society and various Manhattan pubs. Her current novel, A House in the Land of Shinar, is set 3500 B.C. in the Middle East before the three major religions were established. An epic tale spanning several generations, it offers an entirely new concept about the Bible based on archaeological discoveries mostly unknown to the public, but it's historical, not religious because it probes the source of some Old Testament stories rather than reproduce them (Flood, Pharaoh's Daughter, The Red Tent). A House in the Land of Shinar explores how the probable contact between a primitive Bedouin Arab in Saudi Arabia and a sophisticated non-Arab Sumerian in southern Iraq might have created the roots of Judaism. It also explores some biblical themes, such as the concept of justice, the search for a meaningful life, and a people's yearning for their own land, still relevant today. Bernadette is seeking a literary agent and/or publisher for her novel.  
 
   Her website, www.bernadettemiller.com, offers a more complete biography with photographs, and reprints some of her published stories.

Historical novel: A House in the Land of Shinar.
Middle-grade novel: Coming Home