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Haylee Millikan (they/she, but mostly they) is an award-winning poet, interdisciplinary artist, intersectional feminist, and professional researcher working across television, film, and new media. Haylee is an alum of The New School of Social Research, where they received a Masters in Creative Publishing and Critical Journalism and a graduate certificate in Gender & Sexuality Studies. They currently work as an Editorial Research Manager at National Geographic. They worked previously as a a full-time Fact Checker at Parcast/Spotify Studios, and have freelanced for many organizations and institutions in media (The Poetry Foundation, New York Times, New York Magazine, LWC Studios, etc.)
Haylee is proudly queer and disabled. They are originally from Spokane, WA, but spent their 20s living all across the country (Seattle, NYC, LA, D.C.) — they’ve recently re-settled back in Los Angeles with their husband Theo and their three cats.
AWARDS:
Lit Fest, Emerging Writer Fellowship in Poetry, Finalist, 2024
Martha’s Vineyard Institute for Creative Writing, Director’s Fellow, 2024
Quarter After Eight Poetry Chapbook Contest, Finalist, 2023
Los Angeles Review Poetry Award Winner, 2022
Kaplan Award for Exemplary Narrative Journalism, 2017
Seattle Youth Poet Laureate, Finalist, 2015
Selected Poetry:
Third Place Zine, Issue 1: Parkscapes - “Echo Park at Dawn” and “Bluff Park, late summer”
The Meadow, Summer 2024 - “Catch” and “Untitled home poem”
Fruitslice, Issue Two - “The price we pay for wanting” and “The kind of poem I would write a close friend”
Moonstone Arts Center, Bukowski Anthology - “A 340 dollar horse and a hundred dollar whore [erasure]”
Los Angeles Review - “Ode to My Brother, My Dealer, and Instacart Workers in 2020” (and two others) [Press link]
Five South - Spring Poetry Contest, shortlisted - “Triangle de Choisy”
Digging Through the Fat - “These Are Games One Must First Answer”
Vallum Magazine - “Road Closure”
Sunspot Lit - Culmination 2021 Contest Finalist - From “Final Crises” (page 74)
Equinox - “Where Do You Put Terrified On A Map” (page 5)
Emotional Algebra - “[I Wake Up & Fill]”
Utopia - “For My Child Self Caught On The Net”
Human Condition - “Trayvon Won The Science Fair” (out of print)
Susie Magazine (Issue 4: Cycle) - “IUD: Year Four”
Alien Mouth - “Masochistic nihilist”
pioneertown magazine - “White Noise"
Blind Glass Magazine - “Sweat” (out of print)
Selected Essays:
Litro Magazine - “Ugly In Yellow: Memory As Fallible”
Public Seminar - “Blogging at The Establishment,” “Don’t Roll Back Title IX Enforcement,” “Who Goes to Jail for Sex Crimes?,” “On Incels”
CNBC - “Trump's presidential run isn't funny anymore”
The Daily - “THIS SHOULD BE THE LAST TIME: I am done waiting for the UW to care about sexual assault”
Selected Fact-Checking & RESEARCh Work:
National Geographic’s Love+War (TIFF – World Premiere, 9/8/25), The Last Rhinos (Disney+, Hulu)[2025 Environmental Media Award nominee], Naming the Dead (Hulu), JAWS @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story (Disney+, Hulu), Tucci in Italy (Disney+, Hulu)[2025 Emmy nominee], Witches: The Truth Behind the Trials (Disney+, Hulu), Inside the Enchanted Forests (Disney+, Hulu), Mysterious Islands (NG, Hulu), Epic Food Journeys with Mark Wiens (Youtube), Superskilled with Eva Zu Beck (Youtube), Lost Treasures of the Bible (NG), Built to Survive (NG Wild), Close Encounters of the Wild Kind (NG Wild, global release), Colosseum: Rise and Fall (NG), etc.
Production companies I’ve worked with through National Geographic include 72 Films, Amblin/Nedland Entertainment, Arrow Media, Atomic, BBC Natural History Unit, BBC Studios, Blink, Butter Media, Dash Pictures, EarthTouch, Little Dot Studio, Little Monsters, Lucky 8, Plimsoll, Silverback, Somehow Studios, Wall to Wall, Wildstar Films, Windfall Films, Yellow Border, ZDF Studios, etc.
Poetry Foundation’s “The Orbit of Our Dreaming: An elegy for Nikki Giovanni” by Joshua Bennett
The New York Times’ Hard Fork (“The Telegram Problem”), Sway with Kara Swisher (interview with Michael Lewis), and The Ezra Klein Show (interviews with Dr. Lekshmi Santhosh and Ada Limon)
Glitter & Concrete - Elyssa Maxx Goodman [National Bestseller, 2024 Stonewall Award Honor Book, The Millions Most Anticipated List of 2023, A Vogue Best LGBTQ+ Book of 2023, and one of Booklist’s Best History Books of 2023]
New York Magazine’s On With Kara Swisher (interviews with John Legend, John King, Chris Licht, Yoel Roth, Darren Star, Jeremy Peters, Casey Newton, Tony Fadell, Geena Davis, Tim Wu, SOTU, Ken Buck, Richard Haass, Marc Benioff, Walter Isaacson, Lawrence Wright, Reid Hoffman, Sam Altman, Jen Psaki, Sarah Jessica Parker, etc.)
LWC Studios’ 70 Million (Season 5 - “Punished and Persecuted for Being Unhoused”)
Spotify x Parcast Studios’ Bass Reeves: No Master But Duty, Cold Cases, Disappearances with Sarah Turney, Crimes of Passion, Female Criminals, Serial Killers, Famous Fates: Movers & Shakers, Mediums, Obituaries, Cults, Kingpins, The Kennedys, Villains, Rituals, Unexplained Mysteries, The Dark Side Of, Supernatural with Ashley Flowers, International Infamy with Ashley Flowers, Superstitions, Today in True Crime, etc.