Alice Miller is a writer of poetry, plays, essays, and fiction. She is associate editor of the "Vienna Review" and is currently in summer residency at the Michael King Writers' Centre in Auckland. She has won the Royal Society of New Zealand Manhire Prize, the prize for the Landfall Essay Competition, a Creative New Zealand Louis Johnson Bursary, and the BNZ Katherine Mansfield Premier Award for fiction. Her writing has appeared in the "American Scholar," "Best New Zealand Poems Online," "Boston Review," the "Iowa Review," "Narrative Magazine," " NZ Listener," "Landfall," and" Sport."