Jeannette Miller

Miller was the daughter of writer Fredy Miller and Rosa Rivas.[6] Her father's own role as a writer influenced her from an early age,[7] although was a was assassinated by the Trujillo regime on 5 May 1959.[8]

She completed her primary education at Colegio María Auxiliadora and her high school education at Colegio Apostolado de Santo Domingo.[9] She earned her BA in Literature at the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo,[6][1] where she later taught.[10] She also taught at the Universidad Central del Este, the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes, the Seminario Arquidiocesano Santo Tomás de Aquino and at the Centro Bonó.[1]

From 1965 to 1970 she lived in Madrid, Spain, where she studied X Curso Iberoamericano (1966-1967) for Spanish language professors at the Instituto de Cultura Hispánica. During that period, she took classes with Manuel Criado de Val, Carlos Bousoño and other distinguished professors. In 1967, she taught Curso de Desarrollo Comunitario at the Instituto León XIII de Madrid. And, in 1976, she participated in the Seminario Museología y Arte with professor Donald B. Goddall, under the auspices of The Southern Consortium for International Education, at the ICDA, Santo Domingo.

Miller was a leading figure of the so-called Generation of '60,[4][11] which later became the Arte y Liberación (1962) movement and then El Puño,[8] together with Miguel Alfonseca, Silvano Lora, José Ramírez Conde, René del Risco, Jacques Viau and others.[4][12][13]

Her creative and intelectual activity encompasses poetry, narrative, essay, criticism and art history.[9] Her articles on art criticism have been published by the newspapers El Caribe and Hoy.[7] In 2000, she was Director of the Cultural Supplement ESPACIOS, for El Caribe and she is a member of the Academia Dominicana de la Historia.[3][14]

In 2006, Alfaguara published her novel La vida es otra cosa, which became a bestseller in Dominican literature.

She has been a juror in national and international Literature and Plastic Arts competitions. She was a founding member of the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Modern Art of Santo Domingo and of the Casa del Escritor Dominicano. In 1975, she received the Investigación Teatro Nacional award and the Comisión Jurídica de la Mujer from the United Nations. In 1976, she was awarded the Crónica y Crítica de Arte Fundación Pellerano Alfau award.

In 1977, she won the Silver Supreme Joyces (Premio Supremo de Plata Joyces),[4] awarded to the ten most outstanding young people in the Dominican Republic, as well as the Annual Award in the 1997 Art Book category from the Asociación Puertorriqueña de Críticos de Arte.[9]

In 2007, she was awarded the Premio Nacional Feria del Libro “Eduardo León Jimenes”, for her book Importancia del contexto histórico en el desarrollo del arte dominicano, within the framework of the 2007 International Book Fair.[1]

In el 2010, She was awarded the Premio Nacional de Cuento José Ramón López for her book A mí no me gustan los boleros.[5] That same year, she was also awarded the Premio Nacional de Literatura,[4] sponsored by the Fundación Corripio and the Ministerio de Cultura.[15] Her literary work has been translated into English, French, Italian, Portuguese and German, and appears in major studies and anthologies on Caribbean literature.