Tyler Mills

Tyler Mills is an American poet, essayist, editor, and scholar.^[1] She is Editor-in-Chief of The Account,^[2] an Assistant Professor of English at New Mexico Highlands University^[3] and the author of Hawk Parable, winner of the 2017 Akron Poetry Prize (University of Akron Press 2019)^[4] and Tongue Lyre, winner of the 2011 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award (Southern Illinois University Press 2013).^[5] She is also an editor and teacher and lives in Brooklyn, NY.^[6]

Tyler Mills
Mills at AWP 2025
Occupation	Poet

Work

Hawk Parable was included in The Millions must-read poetry April 2019.^[7] Tongue Lyre was fourth on the Believer's "Readers Favorite Works of Poetry in 2013" list.^[8] Her poetry publications include The New Yorker,^[9] The Believer (magazine),^[10] the Boston Review,^[11] and Blackbird (journal)^[12]

Awards

• 2017 Akron Poetry Prize ^[13]
• 2015 Copper Nickel Editor's Prize in Prose^[14]
• 2011 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award^[15]
• 2009 Richard Peterson Poetry Prize, Crab Orchard Review^[16]
• 2008 Third Coast prize^[17]
• Best New Poets 2007 anthology.^[18]
• 2006 Gulf Coast Poetry Prize^[19]

Bibliography

Collections

• Mills, Tyler (2019). Hawk Parable. Akron, OH: The University of Akron Press.
• Mills, Tyler (2013). Tongue Lyre. Carbondale, IL: Crab Orchard Review & Southern Illinois University Press.

Anthologies

• Best new poets 2007. Trethewey, Natasha D., 1966-, Livingood, Jeb. Charlottesville, Va: Samovar Press. 2007. ISBN 0976629623. OCLC 154793308.
• Women Write Resistance : poets resist gender violence. Wiseman, Laura Madeline. Pittsburgh, Penn.: Hyacinth Girl Press. 2013. ISBN 978-0615772783. OCLC 829936662.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
• Bax : best American experimental writing. 2015. Abramson, Seth, 1976-, Damiani, Jesse,, Kearney, Douglas,. Middletown, Connecticut. ISBN 0819576085. OCLC 944156411.
• Still life with poem : contemporary natures mortes in verse. Dubrow, Jehanne,, Lusby, Lindsay. Chestertown, Maryland. 2016. ISBN 978-0937692233. OCLC 958799538.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
• The manifesto project. Hazelton, Rebecca, 1978-, Parker, Alan Michael, 1961- (First ed.). Akron, Ohio. 2017. ISBN 978-1629220499. OCLC 974132446.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
• Peter., Kahn (2017-01-15). The golden shovel anthology : new poems honoring Gwendolyn Brooks. Shankar, Ravi., Smith, Patricia. [Place of publication not identified]. ISBN 978-1682260241. OCLC 966359984.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

List of poems

Title	Year	First published	Reprinted/collected
The sun rising, Pacific Theatre	2015	Mills, Tyler (May 4, 2015). "The sun rising, Pacific Theatre". The New Yorker. Vol. 91, no. 11. p. 31. Retrieved 2015-06-30.