Many people in the Ithaca community know Nina Miller from her work with Hospicare, Suicide Prevention and Crisis Service, and many more service oriented organizations in Ithaca. But she is also a writer of creative fiction, and has just completed a new book, "The Mother of Invention."
This new novel explores issues close to most people's hearts: friendship, loss, aging, the risks of fracking, illness, marriage — all set in a college community. Miller will give a reading at 4 p.m. Saturday at Barnes and Noble, as well as at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 17 at Kendall of Ithaca.
Miller has been a major force in the human service area for many years. She was the executive sirector of Suicide Prevention and Crisis Services and then Hospicare and Palliative Care Services of Tompkins County. She was a writing major at the University of Pennsylvania and won a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship for graduate studies in English. Twenty of her short stories have been published in literary reviews and anthologies. Miller raised three children in Ithaca with her late husband George. She now divides her time between Ithaca, Cape Cod and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
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