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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.

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