Tyler Mills (she/her) is the author of City Scattered (Tupelo Press, 2022), winner of the Snowbound Chapbook Award; Hawk Parable (University of Akron Press, 2019), winner of the Akron Poetry Prize; Tongue Lyre (Southern Illinois University Press, 2013), winner of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award; and coauthor with Kendra DeColo of Low Budget Movie (Diode Editions, 2021), winner of the Diode Editions Chapbook Prize. Her memoir, The Bomb Cloud, received a literature grant from the Café Royal Foundation NYC and is forthcoming from Unbound Edition Press in 2024. Mills lived and taught in New Mexico four years, most recently serving as the Jim and Linda Burke Visiting Scholar for the Doel Reed Center in Taos, and now teaches for the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College and the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. She lives in Brooklyn.
Poetry
Summer 2023
Totalitarian
The Kenyon Review · Totalitarian I put my elbows on a round table painted like a chessboard. Someone orders almond milk instead of cream. At the border, children still sleep […]
Poetry
Summer 2023
Ars Poetica
The Kenyon Review · Ars Poetica After I fell, twitching on the wood floor next to the cat dish, I felt my face sculpting into expressions as though rough hands […]
Nature's Nature
May/June 2016
Repository
1 I woke at 3 a.m. because my right ear itched, as though I’d been swimming or a friend had yelled a secret into my hair. I live in a […]
Nov/Dec 2016
“Dear History”: An Interview with Shara McCallum
Shara McCallum is a poet whose poems are driven by an energy that sparks with questioning. How do we perceive the world? How do narratives of myth, the self, history, […]