Kei Miller
| Titles: | A Light Song of Light, Fear of Stones and Other Stories, The Last Warner Woman, The Same Earth, There is an Anger That Moves |
| Category: | Fiction, Poetry |
| Agent: | Alice Williams |
| Georgina Ruffhead |
Kei Miller was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1978. He read English at the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies and obtained an MA from Manchester Metropolitan University.
He has taught Prose Fiction at the University of the West Indies, and since 2007 has been teaching Creative Writing at Glasgow University.
His first poetry collection, Kingdom of Empty Bellies (Heaventree Press), was published in 2006. Two subsequent collections, There is an Anger That Moves and A Light Song of Light, are published by Carcanet.
His first novel The Same Earth, was published by Weidenfeld and Nicholson in 2008, and on the strength of this Kei was selected as one of Waterstone's emerging 'New Voices'.
His story collection, Fear of Stones (Macmillan Caribbean), was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2007.
His second novel, The Last Warner Woman, was published by Weidenfeld in July 2010.
