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Name:   Sheila Peele-Miller
               P. O. Box 60906
             Chicago, IL 60660
 
Place of birth:  Williamston, North Carolina
 
Age:  44
 
Present Occupation:  Teacher Assistant/ Artist – Author – Wife – Mother – Grandmother / Publisher 
 
Level of Education:  1979 Graduate West Craven High School (Vanceboro, NC) Associate Degree Commercial Art & Graphic Design (Pitt Community College – Greenville, NC)  also attended East Carolina University as an art major
 
Writing History:  Lifelong hobby.  Generous collection of poems.  Three completed short stories. 
 
Membership: RAWSISTAZ • Real Sista Writers (RSW) (co-moderator) • A Club For Us  • Fiction Folks •  SisterFriendWriters • PalsAndBooks • Black Expressions reading and writing groups
 
Event Data:  Guest author at the 2005 V103 Expo for Today’s Black Woman in Chicago/ CAN-TV interview on the Tecora Rogers Show- Chicago/ CATV interview with Michelle Love in Evanston, IL/ Live radio interview on WKKC – Kennedy King College –Chicago • Interview Booking Matters Magazine • Online Interview Literary Source E-zine / Black Men In America / First Cut/ Book-of-the-Month: Real Sista Writers Online Book Club • Evanston, Illinois Book Club • Afrique Magazine  • Epiphany Book Club (New Bern, NC) • Diamonds Book Club (Memphis TN) • Coordinator for the 2006 African American Read-In at Malcolm X College (Chicago) • Assistant Coordinator for the 2006 National Literary Read-In in Detroit • Coordinator of the New Bern, NC Literary Festival
 
Also participated in the 2005 Gwendolyn Brooks Book Conference (Chicago)
Midwest Book Festival (Aurora, IL) /  2006 New Bern, NC Duffest /
 
Other Writing Projects: 
Lonely Color Blue, due to be released in Spring 2007 / Sequel to Painted Picture, TBA
 
  
Additional Information
 
Book Release Date(s):  Painted Picture / May 2006 / Second Edition  
Publisher:  ADIRA BOOKS (ISBN 0-9771927-0-9)  /  Electronic Book ISBN: 1-4184-6727-8
Major Distributors:  Baker & Taylor / Ingram Book Group
 
Book Release Date(s):  Daylight Coming / June 2006   
Publisher:  ADIRA BOOKS (ISBN 0-9771927-2-5)  /  Electronic Book ISBN: TBA
Major Distributors:  Baker & Taylor / Ingram Book Group