Carol Miller is an American author and sculptor with over sixty years of residence in Mexico. She has been a sculptress for nearly fifty years, with some two hundred exhibits to her credit. She has been a writer all her life.
Her career in professional journalism began at age fifteen and continued in Mexico where she wrote for Mexican Life, Welcome, Mexito This Month, Revista de América, Mañana, Revista Tiempo, among others. A correspondent for LIFE Magazine in Mexico, syndicated travel writer featuring Mexico for Mexicana Airlines, bilingual translator, scholar researching especially the Maya among other ancient cultures, film and art critic, also an expert on dyslexia among other learning disabilties, as well as a magazine editor, lecturer, photographer, gastronome. In addition she has also worked for ad agencies, public relations firms, craft centers and archaeological projects. In 1960 she launched the celebrated craft market known as the Bazaar Sabado. She has produced close to 30 books, a number of them published in both English and Spanish, which have evolved out of her extensive research and travel, first among Maya sites in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras and El Salvador, and then distant, often related, cultures around the world, with a special focus on archaeology and history. Her articles on the Greek world in the Sunday Travel Section of the now-defunct Mexico City News, published during the 70’s and 80’s, earned her the title of Honorary Cultural Attaché for the Greek Embassy in Mexico, and the nickname of “Athenea”.
