Alyssa Joy Miller (she/her) is an author-poet who explores themes of faith, interconnectedness, justice, and race in America through mixed-race characters and cross-cultural friendship for youth readers. She is a Cave Canem regional workshop acceptee, a 2024 Mirrors & Windows Loft Literary Fellow, and a publishing professional with Broadleaf Books. She is the coauthor of the picture book, Like God (Wise Ink, 2020).

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—a topic she guest lectures on.

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 MN Black Authors Expo, TruArtSpeaks, and MN Book Publishers Roundtable.