The Writers Place mourns the loss of poet and TWP board member Ronda Miller. 

One of Ronda Miller’s favorite sayings: “Poetry is our most natural connection between one another,” applies to her personal life as well as her professional one.

A Life Coach born in Ft. Collins, Colorado, she was raised on a farm by her maternal grandparents in the high plateau region of NW Kansas, where love for the beauty and healing aspects of nature and poetry began.  She is a graduate of the University of Kansas, a Fellow of The Citizen Journalism Academy, World Company, and a Certified Life Coach with IPEC (Institute of Professional Empowerment Coaching).

She began volunteering her services as a Life Coach via Grief Works, for those who have lost someone to homicide, in 2008.  She served as President of Kansas Authors Club, District 2, and was a Writers Place board member and Coordinator of the Writers Place youth program In Our Own Words at the time of her death. As a poet, Ronda's poems have appeared in numerous journals/anthologies, are transformed into art, hung in museums and can be found at The Smithsonian Art Institute Archives. She has written three books of poetry, and has said, “Writing has been my way of healing, it assists with my spiritual growth, is a release of emotion, leads to self-discovery, and provides a means to connect with others at a core level.