Jim Miller is the author of the novels Drift (2024), Flash (2010), and Last Days in Ocean Beach(2018), and the editor of Sunshine/Noir: Writing from San Diego & Tijuana (2005) and, with Kelly Mayhew, Sunshine/Noir II, and Democracy for Education; Education for Democracy: An Oral History of the American Federation of Teachers, Local 1931, 1969-2006(2016), and co-editor with Kelly Mayhew of Better to Reign in Hell: Inside the Raiders Fan Empire(2005). A contributor to the San Diego Union-Tribune, The San Diego Free Press, American Book Review,andCalifornia Quarterly, among others, Miller is a professor of English and Labor Studies at San Diego City College and vice president of political action and community outreach for the American Federation of Teachers, Local 1931.