J. P. (Janice) Miller

Growing up in Asheville, North Carolina JP’s weekdays were filled with school and sports. Her weekends with church. In between, she loved to read. She had an unrelenting thirst for books about African American people and culture, but few were to be found in the 1960s and 70s. Back then she was drawn to books that were packed with adventure. Preferably short. After retiring from the U. S. Forest Service in 2015, she dedicated her life to writing stories of African Diaspora in Children’s literature. Now she writes the type of stories she would have enjoyed as a child. Short, exciting, and filled with rich African American culture.