Amy Smyth Miller in conversation with Stephanie Copeland- Home
About this Event
After nearly losing her husband, Amy Smyth Miller's panic spirals out of control. Therapy reveals a diagnosis: Complex PTSD. In search of healing, Amy embarks on a harrowing excavation of her past-childhood neglect, homelessness, parental addiction, and a family history shadowed by suicide. Amid the wreckage, she discovers the people and circumstances that kept her safe and helped to shape her life: her wise great-grandmother's teachings, the watchful eyes of caring adults, and her own fierce determination. Each memory is a clue, each family story a piece of the puzzle. But the most elusive truth is buried in a forgotten childhood memory-one that holds the key to her deepest fear. Part investigation, part love letter to survival, Home is a courageous story of trauma and transformation, love and forgiveness, and realizing that sometimes the home you're searching for is the one you build inside yourself.
Amy Smyth Miller is a nationally recognized educator with a bachelor's degree in special education and a master's in counseling. She works as an Intervention Specialist in a rural public school district and lives in northern Washington State with her husband, “Captain Crusty,” her adult son with special needs, and her rescue dachshund, Oscar. Her essays have appeared in The Muleskinner Journal, Women on Writing, Persimmon Tree, Whatcom Writes Anthology: Legacies, and The Healing and CPTSD Chronicles.
Stephany Copeland is the Director of Literacy for the KIPP Foundation, overseeing all nationwide K-8 literacy initiatives. She is also an adjunct professor at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington. She was previously an adjunct professor for Relay College of Education in New York, New York. She taught middle school for 10 years and was a finalist for the Fishman Prize for Superlative Teaching.
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