Scotland
Kei Miller,
Lisa Williams - Edinburgh
NB We have not been able to link with Kei yet.
Kei Miller (born 24 October 1978) is a Jamaican poet, fiction writer, essayist and blogger. He is also a professor of creative writing.[1]
Early life and education
Kei Miller was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica. He read English at the University of the West Indies, but dropped out short of graduation.[2] However, while studying there, he befriended Mervyn Morris, who encouraged his writing.[3] Afterwards, Miller began publishing widely throughout the Caribbean.
In 2004, he left for England to study for an MA in Creative Writing (The Novel) at Manchester Metropolitan University under the tutelage of poet and scholar Michael Schmidt.[4] Miller later completed a PhD in English Literature at the University of Glasgow.
Kei Miller writes some initial notes on writing in 'dialect': From Jamaica to Scotland
https://www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_168678_smxx.pdf
2014 Jamaican-born Kei Miller has scooped this year’s Forward Prize for best poetry collection. Miller, 35, who is said to have discovered the power of his own voice in Kingston when, as a young preacher, he induced fainting fits, won the £10,000 prize for The Cartographer Tries To Map A Way To Zion.
Kei Miller (University of Glasgow, UK) (k.miller@englit.arts.gla.ac.uk)
Kei Miller read English at the University of the West Indies and completed an MA in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. His PhD work considers epistolary narratives from the Caribbean. Kei’s first collection of short fiction, The Fear of Stones, was short-listed in 2007 for a Commonwealth Writers First Book Prize. He has written two poetry collections and is also editor of Carcanet's New Caribbean Poetry Anthology. His first novel, The Same Earth, was published in 2008. Kei has been a visiting writer at York University in Canada, a Vera Rubin Fellow at Yaddo, and an International Writing Fellow at the University of Iowa.
Professor Kei Miller - University of Exeter
Professor Andrew McRae, Head of English at the University of Exeter, said: "We are excited to welcome Kei Miller to the English Department at Exeter. Kei is one of the most exciting writers of his generation, rapidly producing a formidable body of work in both poetry and prose. Anyone who has read his work or heard him read himself will have been seized by the power and quality of his writing. Kei’s appointment as Professor last autumn, followed by Vesna Goldsworthy who joined us in January, represents a major investment in creative writing at Exeter. We believe that we now offer some of the very best creative writing teaching in the UK, at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels".
Kei's particular research interests are in genre theory, the Postcolonial Caribbean, and creative writing projects across a range of genres that are intellectually rigorous.
