Tom Miller is a noted writer of literature on the Southwest and Latin America. For over thirty years Miller has been producing books, articles, and commentary on topics ranging from Panama hats to the song La Bamba . His nine books include Jack Ruby's Kitchen Sink: Offbeat Travels through America's Southwest ; On The Border ; The Panama Hat Trail ; Trading with the Enemy: A Yankee Travels Through Castro's Cuba ; and Writing on the Edge: A Borderlands Reader . His articles have been published in such magazines as the Washington Post, New York Times, Smithsonian, and Rolling Stone . Miller was a founder of the U.S.-Cuba Writers Conference, a bilingual and bi-national conference held in Havana, and is also a cofounder of Writers of the Americas. Tom Miller has been affiliated with the University of Arizona's Latin American Area Center since the 1990s and was a visiting lecturer in creative writing for the university in the 1980s. Miller was awarded the Lowell Thomas Gold Award for best travel book of the year in 2001 for Jack Ruby's Kitchen Sink: Offbeat Travels through America's Southwest . He also was awarded a Gilder Lehrman fellowship from Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History in 2002. He resides in Tucson, Arizona with his wife Regla Albarrán.
From the guide to the Tom Miller papers, 1852-2003 (Bulk 1950-2003), (University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections)
