Wilmer Mills holds both the B.A. and the M.A. in Theology from the University of the South. His first full-length collection of poems, Light for the Orphans, was published by Story Line Press in 2002. Mills has published poems in The New Republic, The Hudson Review, Poetry, The New Criterion, Shenandoah, Southern Poetry Review, and elsewhere. His poems have been anthologized in the Anthology of Contemporary American Poets (Penguin/Longman) and are forthcoming in The Ivan R. Dee Anthology of Younger American Poets. Mills has worked as a carpenter, furniture maker, sawmill operator, artisan bread baker, white oak basket weaver, farmer, and white water raft guide, among other occupations. He lives in Sewanee with his wife, Kathryn, and their two children in a bungalow he built himself (which was featured in Southern Living in 2007). He is currently teaching poetry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.