Mildred Kiconco Barya

Mildred Kiconco Barya is a Uganda-born writer and poet based in North Carolina, where she teaches creative writing and literature and hosts the Poetrio Reading series in Asheville. She has published several poetry collections, including The Animals of My Earth School (Terrapin Books, 2023). Her work has appeared in The Cincinnati Review, Shenandoah, Tin House, and other journals, and she has won the Linda Flowers Literary Award and the Jacobs/Jones African American Literary Prize for an essay.