After her early days as a waitress, Kristin Miller became an occupational therapist. Abandoning that career, she then worked as a housemother at a group home for troubled teens, toiled on a fish farm, coordinated a mental health activity program, and became a professional quilter.

            She is the author of Knots and Stitches: Community Quilts Across the Harbour and of The Careless Quilter: Decide-as-You-Sew, Design-as-You-Go Quiltmaking. She wrote a research paper about the Coastal Quilters for the American Quilt Study Group, and contributed a chapter to Gumboot Girls: Adventure, Love, and Survival on British Columbia's North Coast..

            Kristin has created hundreds of art quilts and custom quilts, and has involved others in group-made friendship quilts and protest quilts. She lives in Powell River, B.C. and enjoys reading, gardening, boating, and red wine.