Caille Millner was first published at age sixteen and recently named one of Columbia Journalism Review's Ten Young Writers on the Rise. She is the co-author of The Promise- How One Woman Made Good on her Extraordinary Pact to Send a Classroom of First Graders to College and her work also appeared in Children of the Dream- Our Own Stories of Growing Up Black In America. She's received the Rona Jaffe Fiction Award, as well as prizes from the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts, the National Press Club and the New York Black Journalists Association. Currently on the editorial board of the San Francisco Chronicle, she has also written for Newsweek, Essence, The Washington Post and The Fader.
A sharp-minded, elegantly written memoir . . . Frank and dryly humorous. -San Francisco Chronicle Intriguing . . . Millner's searingly honest Road takes readers into a little-known experience. -Essence [Millner's] clear-eyed, breezy recollections, delivered with a light touch, win us over. -The New York Times Book Review