Alice Miller is the author of three collections of poetry, What Fire, Nowhere Nearer, and The Limits, as well as a novel, More Miracle than Bird. A new poetry collection, Here & Thereafter, will be out in 2026.
A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the International Institute of Modern Letters, Alice has received fellowships from Glenn Schaeffer at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop; from Grimshaw Sargeson, Massey University, and the Michael King Centre in Aotearoa New Zealand; and from the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Germany. 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 based in Berlin.