Larada Horner-Miller is a poet, essayist and accomplished multi-genre author who holds a bachelor’s degree in English, with a minor in Spanish and a master of education degree in Integrating Technology into the Classroom. She is the accomplished author of six award-winning biographies, historical fiction, memoir, and poetry works plus three self-published cookbooks.
Larada’s Books
Her sixth book, Coronavirus Reflections: Bitter or Better, is available in paperback and four e-book formats. Horner-Miller offers the reader the opportunity to look back at 2020 and the global pandemic through her prose and poetry through reading, then reflecting and responding. She addresses all the emotions she felt during this overwhelming time and leads the reader through to a self-access: bitter or better? This book hit #1 in five e-book categories on Amazon.
Her fifth book is the authorized memoir and biography of world-renown square dance caller Marshall “Flip” Flippo. Just Another Square Dance Caller, Biography of Marshall Flippo is available now in hardback, paperback and four e-book formats. Recently Just Another Square Dance Caller won two awards: Book Excellence Awards Finalist and Silver award for eLit. Book Awards.
Another recent book of hers, A Time to Grow Up-A Daughter’s Grief Memoir has won many awards including being a 2018 Book Excellence Awards Finalist in the Memoir category at the New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards and a 2018 Independent Press Distinguished Favorites Award in the Memoir category. Horner-Miller has also been a past national presenter at the Women Writing the West Conference and is currently the creator of Memoir Workshops for others who want to share their family’s legacies through words.
Larada’s Other Interests
As co-manager of her family’s southeastern Colorado ranch, she enjoys spending time exploring her family’s historic ranch and reminiscing with her brother and his children about their mom, dad, and granddad.
Larada and her husband, Lin, enjoy being nestled in the mountains above Albuquerque, New Mexico, near the village of Tijeras. When not writing books, this passionate, energetic, and enthusiastic woman loves to spend time kicking up her heels at square dancing gatherings, traveling, knitting, and reading.
Larada’s Cat
Larada also enjoys her nineteen-year-old cat, Jesse, a silver-tip Siamese. He has feline diabetes, so she has to give him insulin twice a day. She rescued him in 2009, so she’s enjoyed him for thirteen years. Her mom said he was one of God’s angels because he came to Larada during a difficult time in her life.
I have been an avid reader all my life. My favorite books are any of Charles Dickens (you can see the English major come out in me), Gone With the Wind, and all of Tony Hillerman’s book about the Southwest. Currently I am reading Mary Carr’s The Liar’s Club.
