Leilani Taneus-Miller is a Haitian-American writer based in Edinburgh. An Alexander Dixon Scholar at University of Glasgow’s creative writing programme, she writes in a variety of genres, integrating her academic and professional experience to create literature that elevates underrepresented communities. Her work has appeared in public campaigns, bookshops and anthologies. She is drawn to research and creative programming on: the art of migration communities, regeneration of Afro-Caribbean archives, and narrative voice in diasporic literature and theatre.

Her publications include, Fiction: Brown Girl, 2023 and FAO: Kukuye (in progress); Poetry: The Book of Sonnets (in progress), Atlantis: Poems from the Atlantic Grave (2025), Everyone’s a Sunday’s Child commissioned by Nourish Scotland Campaign (2025); Short Stories: Derailed (2025), La Boule 12 (2025); Essays: Drowning Birds (2025), Chronicles of a Refugee (in progress); Plays: Blood Wedding commissioned by North Bridge Community Project: Bridging Time (2025), Unharmed (in progress); Film Poems: My Hair Tongue (2024), Ancestral Memory Work (2024), An Nou Nou Kite Sa (in progress).