Millie Tullis Named Exponent II’s Next Editor-in-Chief
We are thrilled to announce Millie Tullis as the next Editor-in-Chief of Exponent II!
Millie Tullis (she/they) is a writer, editor, teacher, and researcher. She holds an MFA from George Mason University and an MA in American Studies & Folklore from Utah State University. Their digital micro-chap, Dream With Teeth, was published by Ghost City Press in 2023. Her poetry has been published in Sugar House Review, Stone Circle Review, Cimarron Review, Ninth Letter, SWWIM, Moist Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. Millie is the Editor-in-Chief of Psaltery & Lyre, an online literary journal. Raised in northern Utah, they live and work in upstate South Carolina. Read Millie’s full bio below!
Millie will be supported by additional new editorial team members, who will be announced next month. We’re also preparing a forthcoming Q&A with Millie! This team’s first issue will be the Fall 2025 issue. Until then, Millie is training with the current Editor-in-Chief, Rachel Rueckert, and Managing Editor, Carol Ann. We thank Rachel and Carol Ann for their years of dedicated service to Exponent II and for investing their time and labor in a successful transition.
More about Millie Tullis:
Millie Tullis is a writer, editor, teacher, and researcher from northern Utah. In 2015, Millie won the Sandy River Review‘s Undergraduate Poetry Prize; in 2016, she won the Elizabeth R. Curry Poetry Contest. Millie won the Utah State University (USU) Peak Prize: Undergraduate Researcher of the Year in 2016. In 2017, she won USU’s Joyce Kinkead Award for Outstanding Honors Capstone Project. Her thesis was an archival-based lyric essay on Sylvia Plath. Millie graduated from USU in 2017 with BAs in English (creative writing) and philosophy, with a certificate in women and gender studies.
In 2021, Millie earned an MFA in creative writing with a poetry emphasis from George Mason University (GMU). At GMU, Millie was awarded the thesis fellowship from 2020-21 and the Margaret R. Yocom Graduate Student Paper Prize in Folklore in 2021. In 2023, Millie earned an MA in American Studies and Folklore from USU. She was awarded the English Department’s Master’s Student Researcher of the Year in 2023, the English Department Scholarship in 2022, and the Folklore Fellowship (2021-2).
Millie’s poetry has been published in Sugar House Review, Dialogist, Stone Circle Review, Rock & Sling, Cimarron Review, Ninth Letter, Up the Staircase Quarterly, SWWIM, Moist Poetry Journal, Exponent II, and elsewhere. In 2021, her poetry manuscript, Saints, won the honorable mention for a book-length collection of poetry from the Utah Original Writing Competition. Her digital micro-chap, Dream With Teeth, was published by Ghost City Press in 2023, and her first full-length collection is forthcoming from Signature Books in 2026.
She has worked on a variety of literary journals and anthologies as a reader and editor. In 2022, Millie became the Editor-in-Chief of Psaltery & Lyre, an online literary journal publishing literature at the border of the sacred and profane. Previously, she served as Phoebe’s poetry and social media editor, assistant editor at Best of the Net, and poetry co-editor for Sink Hollow. She also began volunteering with Poetry Daily, a digital anthology of contemporary poetry, in 2019.
Millie’s folklore research focuses on the lives of Mormon women in early Utah. Her master’s thesis at USU was titled “Mormon Women’s Peepstones: Divination, Revelation, Gender and Power in Utah.” She is interested in family narratives, women’s microhistories, and place-making narratives. Her essay, “Comfort, Counsel, Money, and Livestock: Mormon Women’s Divination Communities,” won the Don Yoder Prize from the Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Section of the American Folklore Society in 2023. Millie’s work has also been awarded the Helen Papanikolas Award (Utah Historical Society), the Alta Fife Graduate Student Paper Award (Folklore Society of Utah), and the Best Unpublished Graduate Student Paper (Mormon History Association). Her essay, “Polygamy and Revelation in Magical Mormonism: Four Peepstone Bride Narratives,” was published in DNA Mormon: Perspectives on the Legacy of Historian D. Michael Quinn, edited by Benjamin E. Park.
Her folklore research has been supported by the College of Humanities and Social Science’s Summer Graduate Student-Faculty Funding (USU), the Annaley Naegle Redd Student Award in Women’s History (Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, Brigham Young University), the Elliot Oring Student Travel Stipend (Western States Folklore Society), the Polly Stewart Student Travel Award (second place, the Women’s section of the American Folklore Society), and the Elaine J. Lawless Graduate Student Travel Award (Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Section, American Folklore Society).
Millie works as a Digital Learning Strategist at Clemson University and teaches part-time at Southern New Hampshire University. As a Digital Learning Strategist, she facilitates and develops online instructional development training sessions for faculty on topics related to online pedagogy, accessibility, and best practices with teaching technology. She has taught in face-to-face, synchronous, asynchronous, and blended formats. She tutored writing for over nine years, working with undergraduate and graduate writers at USU and GMU. Millie also worked in writing center administration at USU and GMU, facilitating tutor trainings and writing center outreach. Millie is passionate about empowering writers to reach her communication goals by emphasizing process-based writing, reflection and metacognition, and increasing rhetorical awareness.
