Tyler Mills is the author of Tongue Lyre (Southern Illinois University Press, 2013), which won the 2011 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award. Her poems have received awards from the Crab Orchard Review, Gulf Coast, and Third Coast and have appeared in AGNI, The Antioch Review, Georgia Review, Nashville Review, and TriQuarterly Online, among other places. A graduate of the University of Maryland (MFA, poetry), Tyler Mills is currently in the PhD program for creative writing at the University of Illinois-Chicago.