Kei Miller has been described as one of the strongest new presences in poetry.
In 2014, he won the Forward Prize for Poetry for his collection, The Cartographer Tries To Map A Way To Zion, which was also shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. He is the author of several collections of poetry, a book of short stories and two novels, The Same Earth and The Last Warner Woman.
He has been shortlisted for the Phillis Wheatley Book Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize.
He teaches Creative Writing at the Royal Holloway, University of London.