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 five books: a novel, More Miracle than Bird (Tin House) and four collections of poetry, Here & Thereafter (Pavilion, forthcoming 2026), What Fire (Pavilion), Nowhere Nearer (Pavilion and Auckland University Press), and The Limits (Shearsman Books and Auckland University Press).
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. Poems in Poetry, The New Republic, Boston Review, The Iowa Review, The Poetry Review, The Times Literary Supplement, Poetry London, Poetry New Zealand, Best New Zealand Poems. 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. Prizes include BNZ Katherine Mansfield Award, the Landfall Essay Prize, the Royal Society of New Zealand Manhire Prize, and a Berlin Senate stipend for non-German literature.
Partial list of publications: More Miracle than Bird, Nowhere Nearer, Blaue Stunde, and The Limits
Genres: Poetry, Fiction
Awards: Recipient of many awards and prizes, including a Glenn Schaeffer Fellowship at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a fellowship at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Germany
Current residence: Berlin, Germany