Kei Miller

Kei Miller was born in Jamaica in 1978 and is a poet and novelist. He read English at the University of the West Indies and completed an MA in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. His poetry collections include Kingdom of Empty Bellies (Heaventree Press, 2006) and There Is an Anger That Moves (Carcanet Press, 2007). The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion (Carcanet Press) won the 2014 Forward Prize for Best Collection. He was selected by the Poetry Book Society as one of the Next Generation Poets 2014. Kei has an MA in Creative Writing from Manchester Metropolitan University and a PhD in English Literature from the University of Glasgow. He has taught at the Universities of Glasgow, Royal Holloway and Exeter. He is the 2019 Ida Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor to the University of Iowa and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Author photo © Christine Fourie