Mildred Kiconco Barya is a writer from Uganda now living in North Carolina and working as an Assistant Professor at UNC-Asheville. Her publications include three poetry books: Give Me Room to Move My Feet (Amalion 2009), The Price of Memory after the Tsunami (Mallory International 2006), and Men Love Chocolates But They Don't Say (Femrite 2001). Her prose, hybrids, and poems have been published in Shenandoah, The Cincinnati Review, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. She serves on the board of African Writers Trust, and coordinates the Poetrio Reading Events at Malaprop's Independent Bookstore/Café in Asheville.

Other poems by Mildred Kiconco Barya in Verse Daily:

Other poems on the web by Mildred Kiconco Barya:
Two poems
"Little Wren"

Mildred Kiconco Barya's Website.

About The Animals of My Earth School:

"In the compassionate, playful, fable-like poems of The Animals of My Earth School, Mildred Kiconco Barya awakens us to the vividly singing, fully alive, non-human communities surrounding us. These poems demonstrate poetry's unique ability to prick us from our self-involved numbness and awaken us to wonder. There is great solace, tenderness, and innocence here—the kind of innocence capable of apprehending the creatures of the world—and thus the world itself—afresh. Like a literary Noah's ark of song, The Animals of My Earth School provides a place where all may dance and thrive. These poems provide pleasure and a glimmer of hope."
—Michael Hettich