Tiya Miles

Tiya Miles is the Michael Garvey Professor of History at Harvard University, writes on the history of slavery and early American race relations, and she is a 2011 MacArthur Fellowship recipient.

She is the author of eight books, including four prize-winning histories about race and slavery in the American past. Her latest work is the biography, "Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People." Her 2021 National Book Award winner, "All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake," was a New York Times bestseller that won eleven historical and literary prizes, including the Cundill History Prize and the Frederick Douglass Prize. "All That She Carried" was named a best book of the year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Atlanta-Journal Constitution, NPR, Publisher’s Weekly, The Atlantic, Time, and more. Her other nonfiction works include, "Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation," " The Dawn of Detroit," "Tales from the Haunted South," "The House on Diamond Hill," and "Ties That Bind."