Kei Miller was born in Kingston, Jamaica and attended university in the West Indies before moving to Manchester where he did an MA in Creative Writing. In 2006, his first book of poetry was released, Kingdom of Empty Bellies. It was shortly followed by a collection of short stories, The Fear of Stones, which explores the issue of Jamaican homophobia. It was shortlisted in 2007 for a Commonwealth Writer's Prize. His second collection of poetry, There Is an Anger That Moves, was published in 2007. His work has also appeared in The Caribbean Writer, Snow Monkey, Caribbean Beat and Obsydian III. He is the editor of Carcanet's New Caribbean Poetry: An Anthology. He has been a visiting writer at York University in Canada, the Department of Library Services in the British Virgin Islands and a Vera Ruben Fellow at Yaddo. His first novel, The Same Earth, was published in March. Miller divides his time between Jamaica and the United Kingdom, where he teaches Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow.

More information:

The Same Earth reviewed in the Independent.

The University of Iowa interviews Miller.