In 2006, Miller's first book of poetry was released,
Kingdom of Empty Bellies (Heaventree Press). It was shortly followed by a collection of short stories,
The Fear of Stones, which partly explores issues of Jamaican
homophobia. The collection was shortlisted in 2007 for a
Commonwealth Writers' Prize in the category of Best First Book (Canada or Caribbean). His second collection of poetry,
There Is an Anger That Moves, was published in 2007 by
Carcanet Press. He is also the editor of Carcanet's 2007
New Caribbean Poetry: An Anthology. His first novel,
The Same Earth, was published in 2008, followed in 2010 by
The Last Warner Woman. That same year saw the publication of his poetry collection
A Light Song of Light. In 2013 his
Writing Down the Vision: Essays & Prophecies was published, and in 2014 a collection of poems for which he was awarded the
Forward Prize,
The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion.
Hilary Mantel chose
The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion as one of her favourite books of 2014. This compilation includes a poem on unusual Jamaican place-names, such as
Me-no-Sen-You-no-Come. He published a collection of essays titled
Things I Have Withheld in 2021, which was shortlisted for the
Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction. In 2014, Miller was named as one of the 20 "
Next Generation Poets", a list compiled every ten years by the
Poetry Book Society. He was an International Writing Fellow at the
University of Iowa, and has also been a visiting writer at
York University in Canada, at the Department of Library Services in the
British Virgin Islands and a Vera Rubin Fellow at
Yaddo. He currently divides his time between Jamaica and the United Kingdom. Until 2014, he was Reader at the
University of Glasgow. He is currently Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Exeter. Miller's third novel,
Augustown, won the 2017
OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. Miller was awarded the 2018
Anthony N Sabga Caribbean Award for Excellence in Arts & Letters. In June 2018, Miller was elected Fellow of the
Royal Society of Literature in its "40 Under 40" initiative. Miller was a judge for the 2020
Griffin Poetry Prize. ==Awards and honours==