Kofi Miller is a Ghanaian-British writer and ethnographer. Born in Kumasi in 1986, he grew up between Accra and Leeds, studied anthropology at SOAS, University of London, and completed an MA in African literature at the University of Manchester. Fieldwork with riverine communities along the Volta and Mano basins continues to shape his fascination with tides, memory, and shifting borders.
Miller's fiction blends ethnographic texture with speculative and urban-fantasy sensibilities, bringing maps, songs, and shorelines into conversation with myth. His short work has appeared in Wasafiri, Transition, and Omenana, and he was shortlisted for the 2019 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. His novels, including the river-haunted fantasy The Forgotten River and the city-heist fable Concrete Lullabies, explore how infrastructure and folklore collide.
He has taught creative writing with the Arvon Foundation and once served as a librarian at an Africana archive in Freetown. He lives in Bristol, where he maps tidal flats, talks to ferrymen, and brews coffee strong enough to stand a spoon.
