Education
MFA Creative Writing, Iowa Writers’ Workshop, University of Iowa
MA Creative Writing, International Institute of Modern Letters, Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington
BA Hons. History & Literature, Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington
Alice Miller is the author of six books: a novel, More Miracle than Bird (Tin House, 202) and five collections of poetry, Here & Thereafter (Pavilion, 2026), What Fire (Pavilion, 2021), Nowhere Nearer (Pavilion and Auckland University Press, 2018), Blaue Stunde (Edition Solitude, 2016), and The Limits (Shearsman and Auckland University Press, 2014).
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. Born and raised in Aotearoa New Zealand, Alice is based in Berlin, Germany.
Partial list of publications: Books: Here & Thereafter, What Fire, More Miracle than Bird, Nowhere Nearer, Blaue Stunde, and The Limits. Magazines: POETRY, The New Republic, Boston Review, The Iowa Review, The Times Literary Supplement, Poetry London, The Poetry Review, Poetry New Zealand, Best New Zealand Poems, The London Magazine.
Genres: Poetry, fiction, non-fiction
Awards: Fellowships from Glenn Schaeffer at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Grimshaw Sargeson, Massey University, and the Michael King Centre in Aotearoa New Zealand; and the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Germany. Also the BNZ Katherine Mansfield Award, the Landfall Essay Prize, the Royal Society of New Zealand Manhire Prize, the Berlin Senate stipend for non-German literature.
Current residence: Berlin, Germany