John Jackson Miller
March 2020
A Message from the Dean
Dear CCI alumni and friends,
This is a time of great challenge but also of great opportunity. If someone had told me at the end of February that all of CCI’s courses would be moving online on March 23, I would not have believed them. But, thanks to the incredible dedication and hard work of our faculty and staff, coupled with the resiliency of our students, that is exactly what has happened.
UT’s campus leadership, under the direction of Chancellor Donde Plowman, has done an excellent job of planning for and communicating about
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After graduating from the University of Tennessee where he served as editor of The Daily Beacon, John Jackson Miller (JEM ’90) set his sights on the stars.
Specifically, the stars in a galaxy far, far away and the ones in the far-flung future where no man has gone before.
Miller turned his lifelong passion for comic books and science fiction into a career, evolving from a trade publication editor to a creator. Today, he is a New York Times bestselling novelist and comic writer for Star Wars, Star Trek, and many other fantasy licenses and original works in between. … Read more “John Jackson Miller: From Daily Beacon Editor to Star Fantasy Writer”