Tyler Mills is a poet, essayist, and editor who was born in Chicago and grew up in upstate New York. She holds degrees from Bucknell University (BA), the University of Maryland (MFA), and the University of Illinois-Chicago (PhD).  She is the author of Tongue Lyre, winner of the 2011 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award (SIU Press 2013). Tongue Lyre was fourth on The Believer’s “Readers Favorite Works of Poetry in 2013” list. 

Her poems have appeared in numerous publications, including The New Yorker, Poetry, Boston Review, The Believer, Georgia Review, and Blackbird, and have won magazine awards from Gulf Coast, the Crab Orchard Review, and Third Coast. Her poems have also been featured on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily and have been anthologized in A Book of Scented Things, Best New Poets,Women Write Resistance, and Best American Experimental Writing. Her creative nonfiction has appeared in Copper Nickel and was awarded the Editor’s Prize in Prose.

Tyler Mills has published articles on poetic form in the Robert Frost Review, the Writer’s Chronicle, and Voltage Poetry. A recipient of scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Vermont Studio Center, her past appearances also include the Bethesda Writer’s Center, the Chicago Cultural Center, the Pitchfork Music Festival, the Southern Festival of Books, and the Stadler Center for Poetry. She is editor-in-chief of The Account: A Journal of Poetry, Prose, and Thought and an Assistant Professor of English at New Mexico Highlands University in Las Vegas, New Mexico. 

Website: http://tylermills.com/

Twitter Username: @TylerMPoetry

Publications

• Tongue Lyre , Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award, Southern Illinois University Press (2013) (2013)

Awards

• Gulf Coast Poetry Prize(2006)
• Best New Poets 2007(2007)
• Third Coast Poetry Award (2008)
• Crab Orchard Review Richard Peterson Poetry Prize(2009)
• Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award (2011)
• Copper Nickel Editor's Prize in Prose(2015)
• UIC Graduate College Outstanding Thesis Award(2015)

Employment

• Assistant Professor at New Mexico Highlands University (August 2015 - )

Degrees

• Bachelor of Arts in English/Creative Writing from Bucknell University
• Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (Poetry) from University of Maryland
• Doctoral Degree in Creative Writing (in progress) from University of Illinois-Chicago (May 2015)

Genres of Interest

Creative nonfiction, Poetry