Mills, Joseph: - A professor at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Joseph Mills holds an endowed chair, the Susan Burress Wall Distinguished Professorship in the Humanities. He has published seven collections of poetry with Press 53. His book This Miraculous Turning was awarded the 2015 Roanoke-Chowan Award for Poetry, and his collection Angels, Thieves, and Winemakers was called "a must have for wine lovers" by the Washington Post. His poetry has been featured several times on Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac and in former U.S. poet laureate Ted Kooser's nationally syndicated newspaper column "American Life in Poetry." In addition to his volumes of poetry, he has researched and written two editions of A Guide to North Carolina's Wineries with his wife, Danielle Tarmey. He also has edited a collection of film criticism, A Century of the Marx Brothers. He has degrees in literature from the University of Chicago, the University of New Mexico, and the University of California, Davis.