VickiV Miller

Author. Historic Preservationist. Filmmaker. Entrepreneur. Victoria Scott-Miller is an award-winning Raleigh-based entrepreneur, fellow, series creator and owner of North Carolina’s 1st Black-owned children’s bookstore, Liberation Station. Her work has been spotlighted in numerous media outlets, including Essence, NPR Here & Now, Washington Post, Good Morning America, CNN and Oprah Magazine, and Black Enterprise.

She was inducted as the youngest and first African American woman into the Wake County Public School Hall of Fame in the category of Entrepreneurship and most recently became a Village of Wisdom Dreamship and Invested Faith Fellow.

Victoria Scott-Miller was commissioned by the North Carolina Museum of Art to serve as author and creative director, for her debut series, The Museum Lives in Me and was the first African American to have such a commission in the state and museum’s history. Following its success, she signed a global multi-book deal to expand her series to museums across the country with Paw Prints Publishing an imprint of Baker & Taylor.

As an innovator, liberation strategist, and literacy advocate, she is committed to creating uplifting stories of the possibilities of black and brown children while building the infrastructure and initiatives that promote legacy building, generational safekeeping, and historical guardianship for marginalized voices.

Victoria attributes her writing style and inspiration to her experiences growing up in her birthplace of Memphis, TN. When she is not championing the amplification of Black voices, she enjoys traveling, hiking, roller-skating, and visiting art museums with her husband Duane, and their two sons Langston and Emerson. She is represented by Regina Brooks of Serendipity Literary Agency, based in Brooklyn, NY.

About The Museum Lives in Me™

Miss Edmonia (a nod to American sculptor Edmonia Lewis) and her class of elementary-­aged WILDFIRES are spending the day at the art museum. Follow Kara-Clementine and Attilio as they explore the museum's collection and discover the character traits that make them special. The Museum Lives in Me™ is a picture book series that explores concepts of self-discovery, identity, empowerment, and the power of art, as inspired by our world’s museums and the collections within them.

Each book follows a fictional story that features a diverse classroom of children and their teacher as they visit a specific museum, and various sub-stories of emotional growth unfold as each child becomes awestruck and engaged with the exhibits they see.

First inspired by a partnership with the North Carolina Museum of Art, the series was conceptualized and will be written by author and children’s bookseller, Victoria Scott-Miller, and the first book in the series will be illustrated by visual artist, Francisco Santoya, with different artists to illustrate subsequent installments.