KENNETH MILLER 21217 Bellini Dr. Topanga, CA 90290
818-912-6497 [email protected] ______
SUMMARY Award-winning journalist with extensive experience as writer and editor for national and international magazines.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
DISCOVER MAGAZINE 2016-present Contributing Editor Write regularly for the magazine on topics including neuroscience, cancer research, environmental biology, and archaeology. • Won ASJA Award for science writing for profile of maverick mycologist Paul Stamets. • Won June Roth Award for Medical Writing for profile of immunotherapy pioneer James Allison.
SELF-EMPLOYED 2003-present Freelance Journalist Have reported from four continents on science, medicine, environment, criminal justice, culture, and other topics for publications including Discover, Mother Jones, Reader’s Digest (U.S. and international editions), Life, Elle, More, Prevention, Aeon, and Los Angeles Times Magazine. • Won E.T. Meredith Award for More profile of Rwanda war crimes prosecutor Barbara Mulvaney.
Medical Writer Provide specialized editorial content for clients including NYU Langone Health, Columbia University School of Nursing, and Einstein College of Medicine.
Editor and Writing Coach Help writers (both professional and nonprofessional) produce publishable articles, essays, and books, from conceptualization through polishing and pitching. • Developmental editor for The Year of Learning Dangerously by Quinn Cummings and The Bombshell Manual of Style by Laren Stover.
READER’S DIGEST 2007-2010 West Coast Editor (2008-2010) Senior Writer (2007-2008) Wrote, assigned and edited stories. Beats: Human interest, crime, science, medicine, entertainment.
PEOPLE MAGAZINE, New York City 2000-2003 Senior Editor Oversaw sections covering human interest, science, medicine, environment, politics, education, books, visual arts, and family issues, as well as celebrity as-told-to features.
LIFE MAGAZINE, New York City Senior Writer 1995-1999 Wrote cover stories on topics ranging from cultural movements to climate change. • Nominated for National Magazine Award and won John Bartlow Martin Award for Public Interest Magazine Journalism for investigative feature on Gulf War syndrome.
OTHER RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
ROLLING STONE, New York City Associate Editor
ESQUIRE, New York City Research Associate
BOOKS
Mapping the Darkness: How a Band of Maverick Scientists Discovered the Secrets of Sleep. Under contract with Hachette Book Group
Senior Writer Decades of the Twentieth Century: The Way We Were. LIFE Books, 1999 The LIFE Millennium. LIFE Books, 1998 LIFE Album 1995: Pictures of the Year. LIFE Books, 1996 Our Times: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Twentieth Century. Turner Books, 1995
PUBLICATIONS
Have written for (in alphabetical order) Aeon, Aperture, Discover, Elle, Esquire, Ladies’ Home Journal, LA Weekly, Leapsmag, Life, Los Angeles Times Magazine, More, Mother Jones, Parade, Parents, People, Prevention, Reader’s Digest, Rolling Stone, Salon, TakePart, Time, and other print and online periodicals.
MEDIA APPEARANCES
Have been interviewed on The Today Show, Late Night with Larry King, CNN Newsroom, On the Record With Greta Van Susteren, The Gayle King Show, and other programs.
AWARDS AND HONORS
National Magazine Award Finalist John Bartlow Martin Award for Public Interest Magazine Journalism ASJA Outstanding Article Award for Science/Business/Technology June Roth Award for Medical Writing E.T. Meredith Award for Creative Excellence Wilbur Award for Religious Reporting EDI Award, National Easter Seal Society Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship
EDUCATION
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York City. M.S. Journalism WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, Middletown, Connecticut. B.A. American Studies
OTHER SKILLS
Conversational Spanish and French. Keyboards and harmonica.