Donna Marie Miller

Donna Marie Miller is the author of two nonfiction books, Texas Secessionists Standoff; the 1997 Republic of Texas "War," (2023) and The Broken Spoke; Austin's Legendary Honky-Tonk, (2017,) both published by Texas A&M University Press. Her articles also have appeared in Alternate Root, Americana Rhythm, Austin Food, Austin Monthly, Creative Screenwriting, Elmore, Fiddler, and Texas Highways magazines. Her comedy feature adaptation, The Broken Spoke, was named a finalist in the Summer 2025 Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards, a Semi-Finalist in the New York Script Awards, a Quarterfinalist in both the 2025 Big Break Screenwriting Contest and the 2025 Creative Screenwriting Feature Screenplay Competition, and placed as a Second Rounder in the 2025 Austin Film Festival. She also co-wrote, The Texas Secessionists, a feature adaptation with fellow screenwriter Cynthia Uhrich. Currently Miller is working on a historical fiction novel set in Texas.