About Me

Steve Miller is a spoken word artist, slam poet, storyteller, performer, workshop creator/facilitator, singer(kinda), musician(barely), handyman renaissance person(who identifies as a man-kinda).  He currently lives and works on the unceded and ancestral territories of the Qayqayt First Nation, the first people of this land, and the shared traditional territories of other Coast Salish peoples, including the Musqueam, Kwantlen, Kwikwetlem, Tsleil-Waututh, and Katzie nations, (aka “New Westminster, BC”).

At 5 years old Steve Miller was awarded best story teller from a local boy scouts troop visiting his parents trail ride operation in Alberta.  He grew up in music and theatre, performing everywhere and anywhere all the while keeping his writing to himself.  The two came together in the form of spoken word in May 2008.  Taking 3rd place at his first slam in Calgary he fell in love.  In the summer of 2008 he moved to Vancouver and in his first year, after poetry busking on Commercial Drive every day for three months, won the 2009 semi-finals, taking fifth place at finals.  As the 2009 VanSlam alternate he performed at NPS in West Palm Beach, Florida, CFSW in Victoria, and IWPS in Berkely, California.  He won the  2009 Vancouver Story Slam Semi-Finals and took 4th in the finals.  In 2010 he self published his first book, Naked Poetry.  He was a member of the 2010 CFSW wild card team who made it all the way to semi finals and was a member of the 2011 Beddroc Poetry Slam team.  In 2010 he toured with Johnny MacRae as “The Wet Coast Poets”, performing in Ottawa, Halifax, St. Johns, London and Toronto.    He’s performed at festivals, weddings, funerals, on streets, buses, subways, and anywhere people would listen. he brings a rollercoaster horseback trail ride of emotions to the stage, shifting seamlessly between light and dark matter, often with the same poem and sometimes naked, but always inviting the audience to do the same.

Steve Miller has been writing, performing or just making up stories since before he can remember.   He grew up half cowboy, half forced religion, but music and theatre soon became his gospel, and performing was his life but he always found himself singing words that weren’t his own.  The two came together in the form of spoken word in May 2008.  Taking 3rd place at his first slam in Calgary he fell in love.  In the summer of 2008 he moved to Vancouver to immerse himself into the scene there.

  In his first year he won 4 slams and the 2009 semi-finals, taking fifth place at finals.  As the 2009 VanSlam alternate he was able to attend and perform at NPS in West Palm Beach, Florida, CFSW in Victoria, and IWPS in Berkeley, California.  He won the 2009 Vancouver Story Slam Semi-Finals and took 4th in the finals.  In 2010 he self published his first book, Naked Poetry.  He was a member of the 2010 CFSW wild card team making it to semi finals.  In 2011 he self published his second book “Hotter than Hot”.  He performed @ the Calgary International festival of Spoken Word, and was a participant in the 2011 Banff Spoken word program, directed by Sheri-D Wilson, working with Brian Brett, Kaie Kellough, Anne Waldman and, under Regie Cabico.

  He was a member of the 2011 BEDROCC Poetry slam team, and competed with his team to semis again @ CFSW2011 in Toronto, and was awarded “Most Memorable Team Piece” for “So Much SKY!!” a poem written with Sonya Littlejohn.   Completing his second cross country tour in 2011 he has performed from coast to coast and shared the stage with some of the best spoken word artists in the world.

He’s performed at festivals, weddings, funerals, high schools and slams throughout Canada and the USA..  In 2009 he poetry busked on Commercial Drive every day for three months.   A self –identified "cowboy-queer", carpenter poet, he brings a rollercoaster horseback trail ride of emotions to the stage, shifting seamlessly between light and dark matter, often with the same poem.