Tiya Miles

Tiya Miles is the author of eight books, including four prizewinning histories of slavery. Her 2021 National Book Award winner, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake (Penguin Random House, 2022), was a New York Times bestseller that won eleven historical and literary prizes. Her latest work is the biography Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People (Penguin Random House, 2024). Her other books include: Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation (Norton, 2023); The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits (New Press, 2019); The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story (University of North Carolina Press, 2010); Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom (University of California Press, 2015); and the novel The Cherokee Rose (Penguin Random House, 2023).

She publishes frequently in national periodicals, and her work has been supported by the MacArthur Foundation, Mellon Foundation, and National Endowment for the Humanities. She is currently the Michael Garvey Professor of History at Harvard University.