Born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1978, Kei Miller is the author of The Same Earth, winner of the Una Marson Prize for Literature, Fear of Stones, which was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book, and The Last Warner Woman. His most recent poetry collection has been shortlisted for the Jonathan Llewelyn Rhys Prize, the Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, and the Scottish Book of the Year Award. In 2008, he was an International Writing Fellow at the University of Iowa. Miller currently divides his time between Jamaica and Scotland.
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Awards:
Una Marson Prize for Literature
Silver Musgrave Prize for Literature (Jamaica)
Shortlisted for the 2011 Bocas Prize for Caribbean literature
Shortlisted for the 2011 Scottish Book of the Year Award
Shorlisted for the 2010 Jonathan Llewelyn Rhys Prize
Shorlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book
Praise for Kei Miller
"Miller is a name to watch." —The Independent (UK)
"Miller isn't just a writer ... he is a true alchemist." —Herald
"Raise high the roofbeams, here comes a strong new presence. . . . Kei Miller's is a voice we will hear much more of, for it speaks and sings with rare confidence and authority." —Lorna Goodison
"Kei Miller writes with a passionate understanding of bruised, repressed, and deprived selves seeking, achieving, or failing to find release and freedom. Deep feeling and violent experience . . . are represented with tact, sensitivity, artistic control, and technical variety." —Edward Baugh, The Caribbean Review of Books
"Kei Miller proves adept at inhabiting the inner worlds of his characters, whether gay men, mothers, young women, or older men. His writing is varied, expressive and vivid, not always comfortable but always comfortably written." —David Clover, Society for Caribbean Studies Newsletter
