Tyler Mills (she/her) is a poet, essayist, and educator. Her memoir The Bomb Cloud (Unbound Edition Press 2024) earned a starred review in Publishers Weekly and was awarded a Café Royal Cultural Foundation NYC Literature Award and has been excerpted in AGNI, Brevity, Bennington Review, River Teeth, and The Rumpus, and won the Copper Nickel Editor’s Prize in Prose. Her poetry guidebook, Poetry Studio: Prompts for Poets, is forthcoming from the University of Akron Press in 2024.
She is also the author of the poetry books City Scattered (Snowbound Chapbook Award, Tupelo Press 2022), Hawk Parable (Akron Poetry Prize, University of Akron Press 2019), Tongue Lyre (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award, Southern Illinois University Press 2013), and co-author with Kendra DeColo of Low Budget Movie (Diode Editions Chapbook Prize and New England Poetry Club’s 2021 Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize, Diode Editions 2021). Her poems have appeared widely including in The New Yorker, The Guardian, The New Republic, The Believer, the Kenyon Review, and Poetry; won magazine awards from Gulf Coast, the Crab Orchard Review, and Third Coast; and been featured in the Academy of American Poets “Poem-a-Day” digital series. Her visual work has been shown in the Piano Roll Project, Bates Mill Complex and published in Poetry and Tupelo Quarterly. She has also been featured on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily, and her work has appeared in a number of anthologies internationally and nationally, most recently in the forthcoming Poems from Pandemia published by the Munster Literature Centre in Cork, Ireland, as well as the Golden Shovel Anthology.
Tyler Mills holds degrees from Bucknell University (BA), the University of Maryland (MFA), and the University of Illinois-Chicago (PhD). Her creative dissertation was awarded the UIC Graduate College Outstanding Thesis Award (Arts and Humanities). The recipient of residencies from Yaddo, Ragdale, the Women’s International Study Center of Santa Fe, the Bethany Arts Center, and the Vermont Studio Center, as well as fellowships from Bread Loaf, Sewanee, and the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, Tyler Mills teaches for Sarah Lawrence College’s Writing Institute and the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center’s 24PearlStreet and lives in Brooklyn, on part of the unceded homeland of the Lenape people.
Past appearances include Poetry/Cabaret at the Green Room 42, the KGB Bar Poetry Series, Bethesda Writer’s Center, the Chicago Cultural Center, the Pitchfork Music Festival, the Southern Festival of Books, and the Stadler Center for Poetry. For inquiries, you may contact Tyler here.
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