Writing Studies Faculty

Almeda Glenn Miller

Almeda Glenn Miller is the author of the novel Tiger Dreams, several short stories, articles, and essays published throughout Canada, the United States, and translated into Serbian. She occasionally writes book reviews for the Globe and Mail. Before becoming a novelist, she wrote and performed her own plays, owned and ran her own bookstore, treeplanted, lifeguarded, and when she was really hungry, she modelled for Solomon Boots and Bindings and Wrigley’s Spearmint Gum. She travels yearly; most recently she spent eight weeks in the Middle East and four weeks in France writing her second novel. If Anwar Had Lived…is in its final draft (no, really). She lives and renovates in Rossland with her husband, daughter, dog, and cat. Her most recent passions are boatbuilding and rowing.

Almeda has been teaching with Selkirk College since 2000, and prior to that taught with Kootenay School of the Arts Writing Studio. She has a BFA in Theatre from University of Victoria and an MFA in Creative Writing from Eastern Washington University. She is the recipient of the SCOPE and NISOD awards for her teaching and dedication to her students.

Many of her students have gone on to be novelists, short story writers, poets, journalists, psychologists, anthropologists, historians, environmental activists, film makers, actors, and hip-hop artists.