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Stephen S. Mills is an award-winning Assistant Professor in the Department of Core Studies at St. John's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, St. John's University. With over fifteen years of teaching experience in First Year Writing and Creative Writing, his work bridges queer theory, modernism, and climate change through poetry, essays, and plays.
- Teaches First Year Writing
- Uses anti-racist pedagogy and Liz Lerman’s Critical Response Process
- Focuses on text-image relationships and mixed media projects
His research examines queer community connections to horror genres, gender/sexual norm critiques, and interdisciplinary intersections with art, pop culture, and history. Students engage with multi-genre teaching methods to explore identity and contemporary information consumption.
Notable awards include the Lambda Award (2012), Gival Press Oscar Wilde Poetry Award (2008), and Christopher Hewitt Award for Fiction (2014). Recent publications include poems in Sprung Formal (2024) and plays like Waiting for Manilow (2023).
- Two books on American Library Association's Over the Rainbow List
- Finalist for Thom Gunn and Laura Boss awards
