Lisa Miller grew up on the south shore of Lake Erie and studied journalism at the University of Missouri. She covered the cops-and-courts beat for newspapers in Oregon from 2006 to 2013, then worked as an investigator for a public defender's office in Portland, experiences that honed her eye for procedural detail and the human stakes behind headlines. Since 2018, she has lived on the Oregon coast, where she volunteers with a lighthouse museum, teaches continuing education writing workshops, and hikes in all kinds of weather. She is a member of Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime and shares a creaky Victorian with her spouse, a teenager, and an opinionated rescue kelpie.
