J.M. Miro

J.M. Miro (real name Steven Price) is a novelist and poet living in the Pacific Northwest who grew up reading fantasy and speculative fiction.

He graduated from the University of Victoria with a BFA in 2000, and from the University of Virginia with an MFA, in poetry.

Price's first collection of poems, Anatomy of Keys (2006), won Canada's 2007 Gerald Lampert Award for Best First Collection, was short-listed for the BC Poetry Prize, and was named a Globe and Mail Book of the Year. His first novel, Into That Darkness (2011), was short-listed for the 2012 BC Fiction Prize. His second collection of poems, Omens in the Year of the Ox (2012), won the 2013 ReLit Award.

Price teaches poetry and fiction at the University of Victoria, where he lives with his partner, novelist Esi Edugyan.