Lulu Miller | |
|---|---|
| Born | Louisa Elizabeth Miller |
| Spouse | Grace Miller |
| Awards | The Peabody Award[1] |
| Career | |
| Show | Invisibilia Radiolab |
| Network | National Public Radio |
| Time slot | Syndication |
| Style | Presenter |
| Country | United States |
| Website | www |
Louisa Elizabeth Miller, better known asLulu Miller, is an American writer andPeabody Award-winning science reporter forNPR.[2][1] Miller's career in radio started as a producer for theWNYC programRadiolab.[3] She helped create theNPR showInvisibilia withAlix Spiegel.[4]
Miller is the daughter of two professors, one in sciences and one in humanities. She attendedSwarthmore College, where she received the Beik Prize for a research paper titled "The Troubles By Our Women: The Urban Male Perspective on Independent Women in Independent Nigeria" in 2005.[5] She graduated with a degree in history.[6]
After college, she moved toBrooklyn, New York, where an interest in sculpture led her to answer acraigslist ad from awoodworker seeking an assistant. She spent her hours at the woodworking shop listening to the radio, and toward the end of her year working there, she heardRadiolab, which was then a local show onWNYC.[7] She wrote them a letter asking if she could volunteer, and started as an intern, going in one day a week to answer emails and to record CDs, and eventually became the show's first hiredaudio producer.[2]RadioLab won a Peabody Award in 2010, while she was one of its producers.[1]
After five years atRadiolab, Miller left to pursue writing via a fellowship at theUniversity of Virginia (UVA), where she taught and wrotefiction. Before moving to Virginia, she spent a summercycling across the United States, a trip that she documented and featured parts of onRadiolab.[8]
After two years at UVA, Miller returned to radio as afreelance journalist for NPR's Science Desk. On a trip to theThird Coast International Audio Festival in Chicago, she met formerThis American Life producerAlix Spiegel, who asked Miller to produce a piece she was working on. The two began working on radio stories together and began to conceive a new long-form radio show that would becomeInvisibilia. Launched in January 2015, the show focused on "the unseen forces that control human behavior."[6] Excerpts ofInvisibilia were featured onAll Things Considered,Morning Edition,Radiolab, andThis American Life; it debuted at #1 on theiTunespodcast chart and held a consistent top-ten ranking in the months following its launch.[4]
In 2020, she publishedWhy Fish Don't Exist,[9] a personal memoir incorporating the life and work ofDavid Starr Jordan.
Following the retirement ofJad Abumrad in January 2022, Miller became a co-host ofRadiolab together with producerLatif Nasser.[10]
Miller is anophidiophobe, a person with a fear of snakes.[11] She is married to Grace Miller and they have two sons.[12]