Kathleen Volk Miller is an essayist, a professor, and Director of the Graduate Program in Publishing at Drexel University. She has written for O, the Oprah magazine, Salon, the NYTimes Modern Love, The New York Times Motherlode, Family Circle, Philadelphia Magazine and other venues. “How We Want to Live,” an essay, was chosen as the final piece in Oprah’s Book of Starting Over (Flat Iron Books, Hearst Publications, 2016). She is co-editor of the anthology, Humor: A Reader for Writers (Oxford University Press, 2014). She is co-editor of The Painted Bride Quarterly and co-host of PBQ’s podcast, Slush Pile. She has also published in literary magazines, such as Drunken Boat, Opium, and other venues. She consults on literary magazine start up, working with college students, and getting published in literary magazines.