Kate Miller grew up in Hampshire and now lives in London. She studied Art History at King's College, Cambridge, and Fine Art at Central St Martin's College of Art and Design, London. In 2012 she completed a PhD at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she taught in the English department. She has received a number of awards including the Edwin Morgan International Poetry Prize in 2008. Selected for the 2011 and 2013 Salt Best British Poetry anthologies, her poems have appeared in journals including Poetry Review, The Rialto, The SHOp, Warwick Review and the TLS, to which she also contributes an occasional introduction to a 'Poem of the Week'. This is her first volume of poetry.