A member of a bi-racial family, Miles Steyn was born in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and raised in Vancouver. His creative non-fiction has appeared in ExistereThe Xanadu AnthologyUnsubscribe MagazineGold Literary Magazine, and his essay “Wire to the Sky” was short-listed for EVENT Magazine’s Creative Nonfiction Contest. In 2018, Steyn’s essay “From Clay” was long-listed for the CBC Non Fiction Prize. Expanding on the earlier essay, Wire to the Sky, Steyn’s first book of nonfiction, published while he attended UVic Writing Department, is told through letters from a brother to his late sister, about race, nationality, and the loss of family.