Tyler Mills

Tyler Mills is an American poet, essayist, editor, and scholar. She is an Assistant Professor of English at New Mexico Highlands University and the author of Tongue Lyre, winner of the 2011 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award (Southern Illinois University Press 2013). She is also an editor and teacher and lives in Santa Fe.

Tongue Lyre was fourth on the Believer's "Readers Favorite Works of Poetry in 2013" list. Her poetry publications include The New Yorker, The Believer (magazine), the Boston Review, and Blackbird (journal)

• 2015 Copper Nickel Editor's Prize in Prose
• 2011 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award
• 2009 Richard Peterson Poetry Prize, Crab Orchard Review
• 2008 Third Coast prize
• Best New Poets 2007 anthology.
• 2006 Gulf Coast Poetry Prize

"Taken as a collection, Tongue Lyre weaves a new mythology for our contemporary lives, one based in ancient story but resonating with contemporary problems and settings, with continued attention to voice, body, violence, and song. This is an exciting, imaginative, lyrically charged debut." -American Book Review

"Mills uses myth to peel back the illusion of safety that “reality” offers us—and with it the illusion that there is a barrier between myth and real life. Myth is not a story or a set of stories here; it is a force that makes and unmakes, continually and throughout Tongue Lyre." - RATTLE