UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Tyler Mills will offer a reading as part of this year’s Mary E. Rolling Reading Series. The reading, which is free and open to the public, will take place at 6 p.m. on Thursday, March 26, in Paterno Library’s Foster Auditorium on the University Park campus.
Mills is an acclaimed poet, essayist and educator. Her memoir “The Bomb Cloud” (Unbound Edition Press, 2024) earned a starred review in Publishers Weekly; was awarded a Café Royal Cultural Foundation NYC Literature Award; has been excerpted in AGNI, Brevity, Bennington Review, River Teeth, and The Rumpus; and won the Copper Nickel Editor’s Prize in Prose.
Mills’ poetry guidebook, “Poetry Studio: Prompts for Poets,” was published in 2024 (University of Akron Press). She also is the author of the poetry books “City Scattered” (Snowbound Chapbook Award; Tupelo Press, 2022), “Hawk Parable” (Akron Poetry Prize; University of Akron Press, 2019), and “Tongue Lyre” (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award; Southern Illinois University Press, 2013). She is the co-author with Kendra DeColo of “Low Budget Movie” (Diode Editions Chapbook Prize and New England Poetry Club’s 2021 Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize; Diode Editions, 2021). Her poems have appeared widely, including in The New Yorker, The Guardian, The New Republic, The Believer, the Kenyon Review, and Poetry. She has won magazine awards from Gulf Coast, the Crab Orchard Review, and Third Coast.
Mills received her baccalaureate from Bucknell University, her master of fine arts degree from the University of Maryland, and her doctorate from the University of Illinois-Chicago. She teaches for Sarah Lawrence College’s Writing Institute and the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center’s 24PearlStreet.
The Mary E. Rolling Reading Series is a program offered by Penn State’s Creative Writing Program in English. The series receives support from the College of the Liberal Arts, the Department of English, the Joseph L. Grucci Poetry Endowment, the Mary E. Rolling Lectureship in Creative Writing, and Penn State University Libraries. A full list of readings in the 2025-26 series can be found at creativewriting.psu.edu.