G. Wayne Miller is a staff writer at The Providence Journal, a documentary filmmaker, and the author of three novels, three short story collections and eight books of non-fiction, including THE XENO CHROICLES: Two Years on the Frontier of Medicine Inside Harvard’s Transplant Research Lab and KING OF HEARTS: The True Story of the Maverick Who Pioneered Open Heart Surgery, which is in Hollywood development. He has been honored for his writing more than 40 times and was a member of the Providence Journal team that was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service. Three documentaries he wrote and co-produced have been broadcast on PBS, including The Providence Journal’s COMING HOME, about veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, nominated in 2012 for a New England Emmy and winner of a regional Edward R. Murrow Award.
Miller is Visiting Fellow at Salve Regina University’s Pell Center, in Newport, R.I., where is cofounder and codirector of the Story in the Public Square program (publicstory.org), and former chairman of the Board of Trustees and now trustee emeritus of the Jesse M. Smith Memorial Library in Burrillville, R.I. With Yolanda Gabrielle, he enjoys travel and time by the ocean, particularly the New England coast and most especially Deer Isle, Maine. Visit him at gwaynemiller.com