Alison Lyn Miller

This week we visit with Alison Lyn Miller in Athens, Georgia. Alison Lyn Miller grew up in Hartwell, Georgia, and worked as a magazine editor in New York City and Dallas before moving to Athens, Georgia, in 2017. In 2020, she started reporting and writing about independent professional wrestlers around the state and published pieces in Sports Illustrated and Gravy. Her first book, Rough House (W.W. Norton, Jan. ’26), set in Georgia’s small-town professional wrestling scene, explores themes of escapism, self-actualization, performance and violence, and reveals the depth of an often-dismissed American pastime. She has written for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Washington Post, and Garden & Gun, among others, and has been awarded residencies at the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts & Science (2023) and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (2024). She is 2021 graduate of the Narrative Nonfiction MFA program at The University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism & Mass Communication. BUY AND READ ROUGH HOUSE For more on Alison: alisonlynmiller.com Alison's Books on the Bed: The Last Cowboys: A Pioneer Family in the New West by John Branch The Last Fine Time by Verlyn Klinkenborg The Library Book by Susan Orlean The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit by Michael Finkel Hiroshima by John Hersey Dirtbag Queen: A Memoir of My Mother by Andy Corren Matt's Gifts for Alison: Bookshop Cats by Daphne Du Meowier They Said They Wanted Revolution by Neda Toloui-Semnani A Race to the Bottom of Crazy: Dispatches from Arizona by Richard Grant Gene Smith's Sink: A Wide-Angle View by Sam Stephenson