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Poetry Reading: Tyler Mills & Jennifer Litt

  • The Betsy Hotel 1440 Ocean Drive Miami Beach, FL, 33139 United States (map)

Join Tyler Mills and Jennifer Litt for a poetry reading at The Betsy-South Beach Library. April 10th, starting at 7:30 PM EST.

Tyler Mills (she/her) is the author of City Scattered (Snowbound Chapbook Award, Tupelo Press 2022), Hawk Parable (Akron Poetry Prize, 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 Chapbook Prize, Diode Editions 2021). Her nonfiction manuscript, The Bomb Cloud, received a Literature Grant from the Café Royal Foundation NYC. A poet and essayist, her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Guardian, The New Republic, The Believer, and Poetry, and her essays in AGNI, Brevity, Copper Nickel, River Teeth, and The Rumpus. She teaches for Sarah Lawrence College’s Writing Institute and lives in Brooklyn.

After graduating from the University of Rhode Island with a BA in English, Jennifer Litt moved to London, England, to work as an au pair and to absorb the culture. She earned a Diploma of Chelsea College (MA equivalent) in Modern Social and Cultural Studies and, after returning to the States, she worked as a secondary English teacher and language arts coordinator in Miami and as an adult literacy instructor and an adjunct writing professor in Rochester, New York. Jennifer relocated to Fort Lauderdale in 2018 and works part-time as a freelance editor. She is the author of the chapbook, Maximum Speed Through Zero (Blue Lyra Press, 2016) and the poetry collection, Strictly from Hunger (Accents Publishing, 2022). Jennifer’s work has appeared in several publications, including ellipsis…literature & art, Blue Earth Review, Gulf Stream, Jet Fuel Review, Lumina, Naugatuck River Review, nycBigCityLit, South Florida Poetry Journal, Stone Canoe, SWWIM Every Day, and Witchery.