Bronwyn Mills is a poet, essayist and fiction writer who received her MFA under poet, James Tate. There she also studied with poet, Paul Muldoon and with science fiction-writer, Samule Delany. At NYU, where she was an Anais Nin Fellow, she earned her Ph.D. under poet Kamau Brathwaite and novelist Ngugi wa Thiong’o.  She left teaching in Istanbul, Turkey, to conduct research on African vodou as Fulbright Fellow to La République du Bénin, West Africa. Widely traveled, Bronwyn has also lived in Paris, France (where she studied mime) and Western Massachusetts. She now lives and writes in a tiny mountain village far, far away. For a number of years, Bronwyn was a dance and theatre reviewer with a byline for the New England regional arts weekly, The Valley Advocate, as well as The Greenfield Recorder.

With cultural historian, Eric Darton, and fiction writer and translator, Hardy Griffin, Bronwyn was a founding co-editor for Witty Partition, an internationally focused online literary journal. The journal has changed its name, and now continues as Cable Street, with the same ambitions and content.  She is also a senior prose editor for Tupelo Quarterly. (see Bronwyn Mills for a sample of essays and reviews.) Bronwyn’s books include Night of the Luna Moths (poetry) and Beastly’s Tale (a fabulist novel). She has guest-edited the Turkish issue of Absinthe; New European Writing (#19) and with Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno has worked on a translation from the Spanish, of Carmen Herrera Castro’s Frontera, a multi-dialect, multilingual romp loosely situated at the borderlands between Al Andaluz (Andalucía, España) and the Portuguese frontier. Bronwyn is also working on a collection of vignettes based on her experiences living in Istanbul––By the Spoonmaker’s Tomb––beginning a new novel with the working title, Letters from H.; and has just finished The Canary Club, which begins in Andalucia, travels to Colón’s “New World”, and ultimately Istanbul. Past work has appeared in IKON, the online literary journal, Frigate, Talisman: a Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, Agni and others. Bronwyn taught writing and literature in New York, Istanbul, and West Africa. From time to time she also contributes articles to scholarly journals on the subject of African vodun.

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