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Miller, Kei

Kei Miller

Elected: 2018

Year of birth: 1978

Image credit: Adrian Pope

Kei Miller, born in Jamaica, writes across a range of genres: novels, short stories, essays and poetry. His collection The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion won the 2014 Forward Prize for Best Poetry Collection. His third novel, Augustown, won the 2017 Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature and was shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize. Kei has an MA in Creative Writing from Manchester Metropolitan University and a PhD in English Literature from the University of Glasgow. In 2013 the Caribbean Rhodes Trust named him the Rex Nettleford Fellow in Cultural Studies

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Fellows are nominated by peers and elected by our Council of writers – our governing Board. Being elected a Fellow of the RSL is a lifetime honour. This role gives them the opportunity to support other writers, readers and the future of literature. The RSL connects writers in the Fellowship to one another, and to a wider readership.

Fellowship Election Process​

Fellows are nominated by peers and elected by our Council of writers – our governing Board. Being elected a Fellow of the RSL is a lifetime honour. This role gives them the opportunity to support other writers, readers and the future of literature. The RSL connects writers in the Fellowship to one another, and to a wider readership.