Listen to Joesph Mills!

Joseph Mills has degrees in literature from the University of Chicago (B.A.), the University of New Mexico (M.A.), and the University of California-Davis (Ph.D). As he was working on his third one, his mother asked, “Don’t you know that stuff yet?”

A faculty member at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, he holds the Susan Burress Wall Distinguished Professorship in the Humanities. His published work includes poetry, fiction, drama, and criticism.

He has published four volumes of poetry with Press 53: Sending Christmas Cards to Huck and Hamlet, Angels, Thieves, and Winemakers, Somewhere During the Spin Cycle and Love and Other Collisions.

Joseph and his wife, Danielle Tarmey, are the authors of A Guide to North Carolina’s Wineries (John F. Blair, Publisher). The second edition was released in 2007.