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Terin Tashi Miller is an American writer and journalist, author of "From Where The Rivers Come" (CreateSpace, 2009) and "Down The Low Road" (CreateSpace, 2010), both set in India with an American narrator. http://www.amazon.com/Terin-Tashi-Miller/e/B003WINBKS/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1350678742&sr=8-1 Renamed "Kashi, A Novel," his debut--"From Where the Rivers Come"--was revised and edited before being published in India by Author's Empire Publications (May 2013). A thriller, set in the Texas Panhandle, "Sympathy for the Devil," (May 2013) was also published, by White & MacLean, a Belgian publisher. He has recently begun publishing several short stories as well, beginning with "Worlds Apart," in the on-line literary magazine www.thewriteplaceatthewritetime.org http://www.thewriteplaceatthewritetime.org/images/Summer_2011_-_Fiction.pdf in 2011. Since that short story's first publication, his short stories have appeared in other on-line literary magazines, including www.thesouthmountainreview.org http://www.thesouthmountainreview.org/#!fiction/vstc2=to-sleep-perchance and the journal of post-colonial culture and societies http://www.jpcs.in/upload/208014834The%20zig%20zag%20scar.pdf, and Nomos Review. Born May 26, 1959 to anthropologists Robert James Miller and Beatrice(nee Diamond) Miller, he traveled and lived overseas extensively as a child, ultimately traveling as an adult and living in working in both India and Spain. [would locate links to show this--articles with datelines from both countries?]. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where his parents had taught, in 1984 [can be verified with UW-madison]. While on the College Year in India program, he was invited to work for The Associated Press in India as a "stringer,"--a part-time, free-lance reporter rather than a staff writer--specifically to cover the first murder trial of notorious serial killer Charles Gurumuk Sobhraj in Benares in 1981. His experiences both living in Benares and working for The Associated Press formed the basis for his debut novel, "From Where the Rivers Come," about cultural assumptions and conflicts between young Americans and Indians in Benares. A return trip to India, and particularly New Delhi and Benares, while a reporter for The Fort Worth Star-Telegram [can be verified by a link to bylines in the Star-Telegram?] in 1988 led him to begin writing his subsequent novel set in India, "Down The Low Road." Prior to his 1981 college year abroad, he began his professional journalism career as a "stringer" for TIME magazine, covering Wisconsin and campus events under the auspices of the weekly newsmagazine's Chicago bureau, beginning with a paid assignment to help cover the Wisconsin votes in the 1980 national election. Upon his return from India in 1982, after a summer of job hunting, he was hired by telephone by The Amarillo Globe-News, where he started as a police reporter, eventually becoming a Regional Reporter covering general assignments including bank failures, features, politics and crime at the newspaper. The department of the newspaper, under Mary Kate Tripp as editor, had a regional coverage of 44 counties, including as far south as Lubbock and as far north as Liberal, Kan., as far east as Quail, Okla. and as far west as Tucumcari and even Santa Fe, N.M. In 1985, he was hired by a local newspaper in Arlington, Texas, after visiting with friend John Spelich, at the time a reporter for the Arlington bureau of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. The local newspaper, the Arlington Citizen-Journal, was eventually purchased by ABC-Capital Cities, which at the time owned the Star-Telegram, and at first was an insert in the Star-Telegram. Eventually (1987?), the Citizen-Journal became the Arlington bureau of the Star-Telegram. He was first hired to cover police and crime, eventually all public safety including the fire department, and, as his friend and initially roommate John Spelich had covered business for the Star-Telegram, he developed an interest also in business writing and particularly banking, as he'd covered the failure of a bank in Dalhart, Texas while with his first newspaper and found the event dramatic. He quit the Star-Telegram upon his return from India in 1988, as he was offered a better salary and the prospect of overseas travel by a start-up weekly business newspaper in Fort Worth after working for two weeks for the business department of the Star-Telegram and being told it was not a try-out for future work but merely they needed the extra hand. He left the weekly business newspaper after proposing a trip to Spain to cover Six Flags Over Texas managing an amusement park there and being told the paper could not afford such a project. After working as a stringer covering first business, then general assignments including trials, crime and campus events for The Milwaukee Sentinel and The Milwaukee Journal back in Madison in 1988-89, he was hired again by The Associated Press, but as a full-time Newsman, to work in their Bismarck, N.D. bureau. After a year in Bismarck, he was offered and accepted a job at The Hilton Head Island Packet in Hilton Head, S.C., under the management at the time of Fran Heywood. He spent two years covering crime, public safety, general assignments and business for The Island Packet before being offered a job on a joint venture between The Associated Press and Dow Jones Newswires, a division of Dow Jones & Co. Inc., publishers of The Wall Street Journal, in 1992. He learned of the joint venture, called AP-Dow Jones, or AP-Dow or AP-DJ for short, from Alwynn Scott, a journalist working for AP-DJ News Services, the joint-venture newswire, who also was a long-time childhood friend from Shorewood Hills, Wis., a suburb of Madison where both boys grew up. Scott was sent to open the AP-Dow Jones bureau in Bangkok, Thailand, while Miller was sent to revitalize and reinvigorate the then-one-person bureau in Madrid, Spain. Scott had never lived or spent any time in Asia; Miller had never lived or spent much time in Europe. [All verifiable by searching newspaper archives, with perhaps Nexus-Lexis, and archives of either Dow Jones, AP-Dow Jones, or The Associated Press] After extensive careers with the joint venture, Scott eventually left it to work in Seattle and Puget Sound, while Miller returned to the venture's headquarters, moved while he was in Spain from the World Financial Center in Manhattan to Harborside in Jersey City, N.J. With the dissolution of the joint venture by Dow Jones around 1999 or 2000, and the purchase of Dow Jones by NewsCorp. in 2008, the headquarters of the wireservice were once again moved to Manhattan, to be housed in the same building as The Wall Street Journal and all other NewsCorp. New York entities at 1211 Avenue of the Americas. At the time of this article, Miller remains with Dow Jones/The Wall Street Journal as an interactive news writer and editor in Manhattan, while Scott is now an editor overseeing coverage at long-time AP-Dow rival Reuters, along with other former AP-Dow alumni, including Paul Ingrassia, one-time publisher of both AP-Dow Jones News Services and Dow Jones Newswires.

Terin Miller's novels and short stories are considered largely autobiographical.

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