Drue Miller
Wordsmith and Webmistress

Drue Miller is a wordsmith, webmistress, and webgrrrl down to the tips of her steel-toed boots. She staked her claim in the free-range environs of vivid in 1993 and since then has helped the company grow into one of the biggest, baddest, and possibly coolest web shops in the West. "Death before cubicles" is her motto.

Drue wrote and built vivid's website, which she continues to lovingly maintain. She's worked on sites for Sony, 3Com, the AIDS Memorial Quilt, and Ketchum Communications, and served as programmer/copywriter/game administrator for several online games, including The Rift and the Johnny Mnemonic net.hunt.

She also has written a slew of interviews, feature articles, advertising copy, technical documentation, interface design guidelines, and online help systems for Xerox, Amdahl, Sony, the American Institute of Architects, Carnegie Mellon University, and a variety of performing arts groups and non-profit organizations. She was Associate Editor of vivid's book Careers in Multimedia, a comprehensive guide to the world of interactive media development. Currently, Drue is a columnist for The Net, where she writes about social interactions and personal experiences online, as well as Interactive Age Digital.

Drue also teaches Advanced Authoring for the Web at San Francisco State University and Web design workshops with United Digital Artists. She is a frequent speaker at conferences on Web design process, women's experiences on the Internet, and organizing online games and communities.

Drue has a BA in Professional Writing and Graphic Design from Carnegie Mellon University. She spends her "copious" free time motorcycling around San Francisco, dancing till she drops, photographing the further decline of Western civilization, and seeking out the odd and unusual in everything she encounters.

She's also a shameless caffeine addict and has considered hooking herself up to an IV bag full of espresso so she won't have to take her hands off the keyboard.

 

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