Jim Miller is the author of the novels Drift (University of Oklahoma Press), Flash (AK Press), and Last Days in Ocean Beach (City Works Press), co-author of Under the Perfect Sun: The San Diego Tourists Never See (The New Press), Better to Reign in Hell: Inside the Raiders Fan Empire (The New Press), and the editor of Sunshine/Noir: Writing from San Diego and Tijuana (City Works Press), Sunshine/Noir II (City Works Press), and Democracy in Education; Education for Democracy: An Oral History of the American Federation of Teachers, Local 1931, 1969-2006 (AFT 1931). He has published columns, reviews, fiction, and poetry in the San Diego Union-Tribune, The San Diego Free Press, The OB Rag, Words and Deeds, American Book Review, Fiction International, New Novel Review, California Quarterly, Patterson Literary Review, and a wide variety of other national and international periodicals. 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.
