Mildred Kiconco Barya

Mildred Kiconco Barya is a writer from Uganda and assistant professor at UNC-Asheville. She has published three poetry books and her fourth poetry collection, The Animals of My Earth-School Institute, is forthcoming from Terrapin Books, 2023. Her prose, hybrids, and poems are published in Joyland, Shenandoah, The Cincinnati Review, Tin House, Ruminate Magazine, Obsidian, The Poetry Review, poets.org, Poetry Quarterly, Asymptote Journal, Matters of Feminist Practice Anthology, Prairie Schooner, New Daughters of Africa International Anthology, Per Contra, and elsewhere. She’s at work on a new poetry collection and creative nonfiction. She’s a board member of African Writers Trust and coordinates the Poetrio Reading Events at Malaprop’s Independent Bookstore/Café in Asheville.