City Baker's Guide to Country Living (Miller) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Birth—N/A
• Rasied—Boston, Massachusetts, USA
• Education—Maine College of Art
• Currently—lives in Boston, Massachusetts


Louise Miller is a writer and pastry chef who lives and works in Boston, Massachusetts.

Born to two Teamsters, she was raised in urban Boston until the age of eight, when she moved to a posh suburb and quickly learned that in order to survive she would have to lose her thick Boston accent. She still drops her r’s when tired or angry.

Louise attended Portland School of Art (now Maine College of Art) where she studied photography. She left art school when she ran out of money, and still dreams of going back someday. Louise started her first baking job in 1994, at a little bakery in Cambridge, MA. She hated her first job, gave notice and had vowed never to work in a kitchen again, when on her last day she met her baking mentor, who talked her into staying on by offering to teach her the art of pastry.

Louise has been a baker/pastry chef for over twenty years. She has worked in an exclusive golf club, the private kitchen of a major investment firm, a macrobiotic restaurant where she could only use maple syrup and barley malt as sweeteners, and a kosher gourmet shop. She is currently the pastry chef of The Union Club of Boston, a historic private club formed in 1863, where she has worked for the past thirteen years.

A lifelong lover of reading, Louise began her first attempt at novel writing in 2009. She received a scholarship in 2012 to attend GrubStreet’s Novel Incubator program, a year-long workshop for novelists, where she worked on the final revisions of her novel. The City Baker's Guide to Country Living was published in 2016.

Louise loves stories in all forms. In addition to books, she is a great lover of movies and an avid theatregoer. She and her partner hold subscriptions to two theatres in Boston, and they frequently travel to New York to see plays. 

When she is not consuming stories in some form, Louise loves to be outside. She is a happy member of her community garden where, though as a lifelong vegetarian she eats a ton of vegetables, she is only interested in growing flowers.

Louise is also a mediocre old-time banjo player, and loves all animals, especially dogs. (From the author's website.)