A journalist and writer for 35 years, Miles Tager has corresponded for numerous publications throughout the country. He is a former reporter for the Raleigh News & Observer, Asheville Citizen Times, and The Mountain Times of Boone, NC. Miles also co-founded the Writer’s Workshop of Asheville, and Greenline (now Mountain Xpress) newspaper in Asheville. He currently runs The New River Writer’s Workshop and Halcyon Marketing in North and South Carolina.
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Miles has received two North Carolina Press Association Awards, a North Carolina Bar Association Award for Excellence in Media and the Law, a Blumenthal Series Award for Short Fiction, a North Carolina Writer’s Network Award for Creative Non-Fiction, and awards from Appalachian State University and the North Carolina History Association for his book Grandfather Mountain, A Profile. His planned books include Homage to Appalachia and The Accidental Episcopalian. Find out more about Miles, his love and commitment to Appalachia, and his irreverent, witty and poignant stories.
