Kei Miller was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1978. He read English at the University of the West Indies and started publishing poems while still a student. In 2004 he came to the UK to study for an MA at Manchester Metropolitan University. He later completed a PhD at Glasgow University. Miller has published four poetry collections to date. He is also a short-story writer and novelist. His work draws on Caribbean culture, and on the experience of being an ‘incomer’ into the UK. Miller teaches creative writing at Royal Holloway, University of London.
‘The Law Concerning Mermaids’ is from A Light Song of Light and is reproduced here by permission of Carcanet.
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