Cathleen Miller is a bestselling author and, since 2004, has been a professor of creative writing at San Jose State University. Cathleen has taught hundreds of students – many of whom have gone on to become successful writers, editors, and teachers of writing – in what she call the “daisy chain of learning”. Her biography of Nafis Sadik, Champion of Choice, was named one of the top ten biographies of 2013 by Booklist. Cathleen is the director of the Center for Literary Arts at San Jose State University, where she has brought nationally renowned authors to San Jose and has collaborated with organizations including Cinequest, MACLA, the NAACP, First Fridays, and the Hammer Theatre Center.