With her degrees from UC Berke­ley and UCLA, Elise Frances Miller began­writ­ing as an art crit­ic for the Los Ange­les Times, Art News, TheRe­ad­er, and San Diego Mag­a­zine. Her dossier also includes high schooland col­lege teacher and com­mu­ni­ca­tions admin­is­tra­tor at San Diego Sta­te­U­ni­ver­si­ty and Stan­ford. Her short sto­ries have appeared in The Sand­Hill Review (fic­tion edi­tor, 2008), Best of Sand Hill Review, and Fault­Zone: Step­ping Up to the Edge