All Lovers Burn at the End of the World is a collection of 50 micros and flashes that straddle our world and beyond in a voicy mix of speculative and literary fiction. Details of the domestic fold into the fantastic in relocating a 500 pound robin nesting on a front porch, a daughter who needs help removing recurring stones from her feet, and future-predicting origami as applied to relationships. Practical tips include how to avoid teeth while harvesting crops, ways to make a visiting forest comfortable on the living room couch, and techniques for placating murderous houseplants when the desert blooms.
An ND author, Janna's themes for writing are strongly speculative and often fabulist in theme. She has over fifty published short stories in SmokeLong Quarterly, Andromeda Spaceways, F(r)iction, Shenandoah, and Cheap Pop, among others. She has multiple nominations for Best MicroFiction and Best Small Fictions, placing a piece in Best MicroFictions in 2023. Starting as a guest reader for SmokeLong Quarterly, she is now a grateful Submissions Editor. Outside of writing, she is a North Carolina school librarian who enjoys reading (of course!), her family, and doing unusual and sadly expensive crafts. She is also surrounded by an absurd number of animals.
"Each of these richly imagined worlds is equal parts magic and curiosity, earthy and sublime at once. Janna Miller has created a stunning collection of innovative, surprising work at that perfect place between prose and poetry. Lush alchemy."
— Christopher Allen
"Lyrical and enigmatic, this collection draws you into its unique world. Each story reveals a glimpse of the mesmerizing forest, luring you farther down the deer path with each page. Dreamy, haunted, teeming with nature and wonder, Miller’s stories reach out and fold you into their verdant arms."
— Tara Campbell
"In All Lovers Burn At the End of the World, Janna Miller conjures a host of weirdly beautiful characters, enticing the reader into landscapes perilous precisely because of their surface sheen of familiarity. This collection of 50 flash stories will introduce you to spontaneous creation, black-market emporiums, wondrously clever girls, and lovers that really ought to know better. After exploring Miller’s gorgeously twisted path, you might decide this is exactly where you want to stay."
— Myna Chang
