On The Move 2011: Kei Miller (Writers in Motion: decline and Recovery)

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"On the Move" is a series of interviews with writers traveling with the IWP on various study and reading projects. Kei Miller is here interviewed on the tour "Writers in Motion 2011: Decline and Recovery." The blog documenting it is at http://writersinmotion.blogspot.com. Kei Miller is the author of three books of poetry, two novels and a collection of short stories, and the editor of the anthology New Caribbean Poetry (Carcanet, 2007). Short-listed for a number of major literary awards, he is the recipient of Jamaica's Silver Musgrave medal and the Una Marson Prize for Literature. He teaches creative writing at the University of Glasgow. The series is produced by the IWP at the University of Iowa, and is made possible by a grant from the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State. Video producer: Sahar Sharkar

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