Marianne K. Miller
Marianne Miller’s debut novel, We Were the Bullfighters, about Ernest Hemingway’s time at the Toronto Daily Star in 1923 will be published by Dundurn Press on May 28, 2024.
A member of the Hemingway Society, Marianne presented a paper, Hemingway in Toronto - A Fiction Writer Weighs In, at the 18th International Hemingway Conference held in Paris, France. In 2023, the Hemingway Collection at the JFK Presidential Library in Boston invited her to write about Hemingway’s time in Toronto for their Spaces Project. In 2023, she was also one of three judges for the Penguin Random House Award for Student Writing.
Marianne is a graduate of the Creative Writing Program, School of Continuing Studies, University of Toronto where she studied with Lee Gowan, Kim Echlin, Michael Winter, Marina Endicott and Peter Robinson. While a student there, she won and was twice short-listed for the Random House Award for Student Writing. On graduating, she was nominated for the Marina Nemat prize for Writing Excellence. Her short story, Vigil Night, appeared in The Antigonish Review. Her short story, Made in China (The World is Red), was a finalist in the Carleton University Staff/Alumni Short Story Contest judged by Frances Itani. Her monologue, a. k. a. Jason, produced at a juried theatre festival, is a favourite audition piece for aspiring actors around the world.
In addition to her Certificate in Creative Writing, Marianne holds a degree in law from Queen’s University in Kingston.