Alice Miller is the author of a novel, More Miracle than Bird, and four collections of poetry, Here & Thereafter, Nowhere Nearer, The Limits, and What Fire. She is the 2027 International Institute of Modern Letters Writer in Residence.
A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the International Institute of Modern Letters, Alice has received residencies and fellowships from the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Germany; the Sargeson Trust, Massey University, and the Michael King Writers’ Centre in Aotearoa New Zealand; Can Serrat in Spain; and Glenn Schaeffer at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in the US. She has also received a BNZ Katherine Mansfield Award, the Landfall Essay Prize, the Royal Society of New Zealand Manhire Prize, the Berlin Senate stipend for non-German literature, and has travelled to Antarctica courtesy of Antarctica New Zealand.
Alice has worked as an historian, a creative writing lecturer, and a writer and editor for the United Nations. She is currently on the faculty of the Pan-European MFA program at Cedar Crest College.
Born and raised in Aotearoa New Zealand, Alice is currently based in Berlin.