Preston Miller was born and raised in Raleigh, North Carolina. He attended Appalachian State University for three years before transferring to City-College of New York. There he graduated in 1995 with a Bachelors of Fine Arts with honors in the Communications, Film & Video Department. He currently resides on Long Island, New York, with his wife and their two sons.
Among his numerous shorter works, Miller wrote and directed two feature films: Jones (2007), which was praised by Amy Taubin in Film Comment (among others), and God's Land (2011), inspired by a true story about a religious group from Taiwan who travel to Texas to find the end of the world.