Tyler Mills

Tyler Mills is the author of the memoir The Bomb Cloud (Unbound Edition Press, March 2024), which received a Literature Grant from the Café Royal Foundation NYC. Her poetry craft book Poetry Studio: Prompts for Poets is forthcoming from the University of Akron Press in May. Her other books include 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 Low Budget Movie (co-authored with Kendra DeColo, Diode Editions 2021). A poet and essayist, her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Guardian, The New Republic, The Believer, and Poetry, and her essays in AGNI, Brevity, Copper Nickel, River Teeth, and The Rumpus. She lived and taught in New Mexico for four years, most recently serving as the Burke Scholar for the Doel Reed Center for the Arts in Taos, NM, and now teaches for Sarah Lawrence College’s Writing Institute and the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. She lives in Brooklyn, NY, on part of the unceded homeland of the Lenape people.