House of Roses: A Mother and a Daughter - Paperback

Miller, Patricia Dove: - Patricia Dove Miller's first memoir, Bamboo Secrets: One Woman's Quest through the Shadows of Japan, was published in 2016 and named one of the top-five finalists in the 2017 Next Generation Indie Book Awards. Miller is a third-generation Californian, born and raised in Berkeley. She attended Stanford University and, much later, at the age of sixty-six, completed her MFA in Writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is also an alumna of the Community of Writers at Olympic Valley. Miller's poetry has appeared in Tidepools: A Journal of Ideas, Into the Deep End: The San Diego Writing Center Anthology, The Marin Poetry Center Anthology, and other literary journals. She has lived in the mountains outside of Cali, Colombia, and in a tiny rice-farming village in North Thailand, and at the edge of the northeastern hills in Kyoto, Japan. She currently resides in the Sierra foothills of Northern California, where she teaches creative writing and practices ikebana, shakuhachi, and Zen meditation.