Short Bio:
Joanne Orion Miller is the published author of eight books on travel, the novel "SHAKETOWN: THE MADAM'S DAUGHTER", and several short stories including "How you See It", “Penance” (short-listed for the Raymond Carver Award) and “U-Wash, U-Dry”; she contributed another story, “The Clockmaker, ” to the anthology RIPE FRUIT. She was among 20 international fiction writers chosen to attend the Spoleto (Italy) International Writer’s Conference.
Her non-fiction work has appeared in print in WRITER'S MARKET, FICTION & SHORT STORY WRITER'S MARKET (both Writer’s Digest Books), USA, SAN FRANCISCO AND NORTHERN CALIFORNIA (Dorling Kindersley) and many other publications. She has also written comprehensive guidebooks to Pennsylvania, Maryland-Delaware, Chesapeake Bay, Maryland's Eastern Shore, Delaware (Avalon/Moon Handbooks) Marin County (Sasquatch Press) and Maui and Kaua'i (Peter Pauper Press).