David Mills, 36th Annual ODU Literary Festival

David Mills is a Yale University graduate. His first book, The Dream Detective, was a small-press best-seller. His second, The Sudden Country, was a Main Street Rag Prize finalist in 2012. He has received fellowships from Breadloaf, The New York Foundation of the Arts, and The Soros and Hughes/Knight Institute. His poems have appeared in many journals, including Ploughshares, Fence, Jubilat, Callaloo, Rattapallax, and Hanging Loose. He was commissioned to write a play for Juilliard and to do ekphrastic works for the Philadelphia Museum exhibition Stalwart: The Art of Christopher Carter