Multi-genre flutist, educator, and author, Delandria Mills is a native of Houston, Texas. She is a graduate of Houston’s High School for the Performing & Visual Arts, Prairie View A&M University, and earned both her Masters in Classical Flute and Graduate Performance Diploma in Jazz Studies from the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore where she now teaches in the Preparatory Department. In addition to the Peabody Institute, she teaches for Baltimore City Schools and is associate flute professor at Morgan State University. Mills is the founder of Kingdom Flute Works, an intensive summer program, which is held annually since 2009. She has won national, as well as international, competitions and has nine recordings of her own. Mills’ literary works are two book series: Demi’s Flute: Discovering Notes and Sounds (picture books for young readers), and a young adult fiction novel series entitled Demi’s Flute: Entering the Realm of Sound.