About the Instructor/Moderator

Tyler Mills is a poet, essayist, and educator. Her most recent poetry books are the poetry guidebook Poetry Studio: Prompts for Poets (University of Akron Press 2024) for new and experienced poets and City Scattered (Tupelo Press 2022). She is also the author of the memoir The Bomb Cloud (Unbound Edition Press 2024), which received a Literature Grant from the Café Royal Foundation NYC. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Guardian, The New Republic, the Kenyon Review, The Believer, and Poetry. Her essays have appeared in AGNI, Brevity, Lit Hub, River Teeth, and The Rumpus. She has served as a Fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Kenyon Review Writers  Workshop and has been awarded residencies from Yaddo, Ragdale, and the Bethany Arts Community. She is also the author of the poetry books Hawk Parable (University of Akron Press 2019), Tongue Lyre (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award, Southern Illinois University Press 2013), and co-author with Kendra DeColo of Low Budget Movie (Diode Editions 2021). Empathy, rigorous questions, and embracing process are central to her approach to poetry and art making. She teaches for the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in New York City.

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Their work is regularly exhibited internationally and is in the permanent collections of over 60 museums. Over the past fifteen years, they have built a sustainable career as a visual artist and have extensive experience working with museums, galleries, universities and nonprofit organizations, publishers, and press outlets. In addition to their own creative work, they are passionate about sharing the professional knowledge they’ve acquired throughout their career with other artists.