Having studied English literature, Latin and ancient Greek, Graeme Miles completed a PhD at the University of Western Australia in 2006 and in the same year travelled to India on an Asialink residency at the University of Madras. After six months there, he spent a year in Belgium as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Ghent.
In 2008, he joined the University of Tasmania as a lecturer in Classics, a position he still holds as of 2018.
Miles's poetry has been published throughout Australia, and he has also published two full-length poetry collections.