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The “Biloxi: A Novel” is a fiction and thriller novel that describes a man and his dog. Mary Miller is the author of this family life fiction novel. Mary Miller is also the author of The Last Days of California and the short story collections Big World and Always Happy Hour. She is a former James A. Michener Fellow in Fiction at the University of Texas and John. Biloxi is about a man and his dog is also about unexpected connections and the strange turn’s life can take. A 63-year-old man, Louis, who has simply given up on life. His father has died and his wife has left him alone. He just knows his married daughter nor his granddaughter even though they live just 20 minutes away. He had taken early retirement from his insurance job. Louis friends have abandoned him. Everything that was important to him has either left or rejected him. He is a study in loneliness, hopelessness, and despair.

Mary Miller's BIG WORLD is the second book and first work of fiction to come out of Short Flight/Long Drive Books, a publishing arm of the independent literary journal Hobart. The characters in Mary Miller's debut short story collection BIG WORLD are at once autonomous and lonesome, possessing both a longing to connect with those around them and a cynicism regarding their ability to do so, whether they're holed up in a motel room in Pigeon Forge with an air gun shooting boyfriend as in "Fast Trains" or navigating the rooms of their house with their dad after their mother's death as in "Leak." Mary Miller's writing is unapologetically honest and efficient and the gut-wrenching directness of her prose is reminiscent of Mary Gaitskill and Courtney Eldridge, if Gaitskill's and Eldridge's stories were set in the south and reeked of spilt beer and cigarette smoke.