Alyssa Joy Miller (she/her) is an author-poet who explores themes of faith, interconnectedness, justice, and race in America through stories for youth and adult readers. A 2024 Mirrors & Windows Loft Literary Fellow, 2025 MN State Arts Board Creative Grant recipient, 2026 Martha’s Vineyard Poet & Author Fellow, and a publishing professional. She is the founder of Brown Noise, a virtual writing space for multiracial artists and editor of the forthcoming anthology, Two or More Races (Univ of MN Press, 2027). She is represented by Serendipity Literary, NY.

Alyssa received her BA from Howard University in Journalism, Certificate of Digital Editing & Publishing from the University of Chicago, and her MFA in Creative Writing for Children and Young Adult Literature from Hamline University where she won the Anne Tews Schwab Award for her braided essay research tracing Black sermonic rhetoric in free verse.

Alyssa is soulmate to Matthew, they have four beautiful children and reside in the Dakóta lands of St. Paul, MN. You can find her active in the broader Twin Cities writing community with events through MNBIPOCKidlit, MN Black Authors Expo, TruArtSpeaks, and MN Book Publishers Roundtable.