Har­ri­et Levin Mil­lan is a prize-win­ning poet and writer. Her two poet­ry books have been hon­ored with prizes from the Poet­ry Soci­ety of Amer­i­ca, The Barnard New Women Poets Book Series and the PEW Fel­low­ship in the Arts. She holds an MFA from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Iowa Writ­ers Work­shop and teach­es cre­ative writ­ing and directs the Pro­gram in Pub­lish­ing and Writ­ing at Drex­el University.

Har­ri­et Levin Mil­lan is avail­able to be booked for speak­ing engage­ments through Read On. Click here for more information. 

Her debut nov­el, How Fast Can you Run (Har­vard Square Edi­tions, 2016) is based on the true life sto­ry of a S. Sudanese refugee Mil­lan met in Philadel­phia through her teach­ing job at Drex­el Uni­ver­si­ty and with her son helped reunite him and three oth­er S. Sudanese refugees with their moth­ers. How Fast Can You Run was cho­sen as a 2017 Char­ter for Com­pas­sion Glob­al Read and received an Inde­pen­dent Publisher’s Book Award.