Greg Blake Miller, Story Producer

Greg Blake Miller, Story Producer

After serving as story producer for Following the Ninth, Greg continues his work with the Beethoven | Hero team. He has written extensively about film and culture, particularly Russian culture, culminating with Reentry Shock (2010), the story of how a group of post-Stalin Soviet filmmakers dug deep into cultural and personal memory to create art that transcended ideology. Greg is a former staff writer for Russia’s Moscow Times and has also worked at Mosfilm Studios. He was named Nevada’s Outstanding Journalist for his work at Vegas Seven magazine, where he served as Editor from 2010-2014, and he received Parenting Publications of America’s top national honors for his feature and humor writing at OC Family.

Greg holds a doctorate in International Communication from the University of Oregon—where he also taught writing and media studies—and a master’s degree in International Studies from the University of Washington. In addition, he earned a masters degree in creative writing from the University of Southern California, where he won the prestigious Moses Fiction Prize. Greg’s most recent publication is the short-story collection Decemberlands (2015), illustrated by his wife, Svetlana Larionova Miller. Greg is currently the director of Olympian Creative Education; he and Svetlana live in Henderson, Nevada, with their son, two cats, and a glamorous border collie/beagle.