Mildred Breedlove

Mildred Mathews Breedlove (27 May 1904 – 14 August 1994) was an American poet who was appointed as the Poet Laureate of Nevada from 1957 to 1967. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968. Amado Yuzon, the international organization's founder and president, gave the said award in Las Vegas. Among her many honors from President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines were a gold medallion and a gold laurel wreath. Evidently this issue was never resolved. In a letter she wrote she said she could no longer live in Nevada because she had grown so resentful and bitter.

She died on 14 August 1994 in Ferron, Utah.

Published works Those Desert Hills and Other Poems (1959) A Study of Rhyme & Rhythm in Creative Expression (1959) Nevada: A Poem Commemorating Nevada’s One Hundredth Anniversary as a State (1963)