A Note on the Author
I first met Sean Miller during my MA year in 2003 at Carleton University. Initially, he didn't make much of an impression on me, but one day he did a seminar on J.G. Ballard's The Atrocity Exhibition and as I sat in my uncomfortable chair in the dark of the seminar room, I realized that Sean had managed to clarify that disturbing, experimental satire for me in a way I was not able to do myself. I ended up referencing Sean in the essay I later wrote on that novel, which ended up forming the foundation for my thesis.
A keen observer of human interaction, Sean has based a good deal of his writing on what happens in the upper-levels of the ivory tower between selfish and horny graduate students. Relationships spark, explode into white-hot passion and drop as ash onto the ground, fertilizing an ecosystem of literary and intellectual pretension and achievement.
Sean fills his worlds with motion, both physical - fighting, fucking, drinking – and emotional – loving, hating, arguing and expressing disbelief and wonder at the actions of people. There are those who see Sean's world as pure fantasy rooted in his physical condition, but I prefer to think that Sean's writing is rooted in possibility.
Sean is a man who loves to look at and spend time with beautiful women, can't get enough of being out on the canal and who loves, above all, the joy of sports and competition.
He's Hemingway in a wheelchair or Richler with a considerably more positive outlook on life. He is a man who has the ability to see the alternate dimensions of his life, the forms his life would have or could have taken had he not been born with CP. It is his job, his purpose in life, to document those lives. In this respect, he is absolutely successful and one can only hope that he one day gains the recognition he deserves.
[December 13, 2008] Publishers are now beginning to recognize the insight and humour Sean offers to the world, so I can only wait with great anticipation to see his writing published and the effect it will have on the world.
Kristopher Moran
August 17, 2008
Revised and Updated December 13, 2008
Ottawa, Ontario
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