K. D. Miller

K.D. Miller was born in Hamilton, Ontario in 1951. In 1973 she graduated with an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree in Drama and English from the University of Guelph. In 1978, she graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Master of Fine Arts degree in directing.

Her first published story was “Now, Voyager,” which appeared in the May 1981 issue of Flare, and was the first-prize winner of that magazine’s literary contest. Since then, her stories and essays have appeared in Best Canadian Stories – Oberon 2008 and 2009, Maisonneuve Magazine, The Capilano Review, Canadian Forum, The New Quarterly, Prism International and The Journey Prize Anthology. Her work has appeared in several other anthologies, and has been broadcast by the CBC.

K.D. Miller’s first collection of short stories, A Litany in Time of Plague, was published in 1994. Her second collection, Give Me Your Answer, published in 1999, was short-listed for the inaugural Upper Canada Brewing Company’s Writer’s Craft Award.  Holy Writ, a series of personal essays which explore the link between creativity and spirituality, was published in 2001. Her first novel, Brown Dwarf, was published by Biblioasis in 2010. Stonebunny Press published her third collection of stories, The Other Voice, in 2011. Her fourth collection, All Saints, published by Biblioasis in 2014, was short-listed for the 2014 Rogers Writers' Trust Award.  Late Breaking, her latest collection of linked stories inspired by the paintings of Alex Colville, was published by Biblioasis in September, 2018. It was listed by both Quill & Quire and the Globe and Mail as among the best books of 2018. It was also short-listed for the 2019 Trillium Book Award and long-listed for the 2019 Toronto Book Award. Most recently, it was long-listed for the 2019 Giller Prize.

K.D. Miller lives in Toronto.