Chad R. Miller
Chad R. Miller is a midwestern artist who works in creative nonfiction writing, photography, and painting.
Mr. Miller was born in South Dakota and grew up mainly in Urbandale, Iowa. He has lived in many places throughout the US and abroad, including Seattle, New Orleans, Minneapolis, Belgium, Ethiopia, and Myanmar. He has also studied eight languages.
Miller attended the University of Iowa, where he earned a BA degree in Communications Studies with a major in Film and Video production.
In 2018 he earned an MFA in Creative Nonfiction Writing from Ashland University. His thesis project was a collection of interwoven essays related to travel and memoir entitled, You Can See it from Here.
Most recently he published two works of creative nonfiction: Time Being (2024) and ants (2025). For both of these publications, Miller also did the book design, cover design, and photography. He has previously exhibited his painting and photography at the Northfield Arts Guild in Northfield, Minnesota, and had two paintings included in the Twenty-Second Annual Rock Island Fine Arts Exhibition (Juror: Stephen Prokopoff, Director, University of Iowa Museum of Art).
Miller’s pursuits in different mediums overlap and inform each other. His projects often combine writing and photography. The various strands of his work embody several core areas of emphasis: process, discovery, movement, and research. He deals with themes of identity, travel and movement, rootedness vs. restlessness, precision vs. fluidity, and shifts in time/place/culture.
Currently he is developing several projects: a book with text and images entitled Reconfigured Memories: Memoir of a Project; a series of paintings called Home Free/On the Road, and a photography and text project called Iowa River.
