Ellen Miller (1967–December 23, 2008) was an American fiction writer. She was born and raised in the Canarsie section of Brooklyn, New York, though lived in New York's East Village for the last 20 years of her life. Miller's novel Like Being Killed was published in 1998 and appeared briefly on the San Francisco Chronicle bestseller list. Her fiction also appeared in the anthologies 110 Stories: New York Writes After September 11, Brooklyn Noir, and Lost Tribe: Jewish Fiction from the Edge. She was at work on a second, untitled novel at the time of her death. She graduated from Wesleyan University, NYU Creative Writing Program, and the McDowell Colony and taught at NYU and the New School. References Writers from Brooklyn 2008 deaths 1967 births American women novelists 20th-century American novelists 20th-century American women writers Novelists from New York (state) People from Canarsie, Brooklyn People from the East Village, Manhattan Wesleyan College alumni New York University faculty New York University alumni American women academics 21st-century American women