Meet the Writer

Tyrone Jaeger lives and writes in a concrete factory in Arkansas. Once, he lived and wrote in a dome on the suburban Great Plains. He was born in the Catskill Mountains of New York, has lived in Central Florida, Ireland, California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains, and Denver. Jaeger’s poetry and prose have appeared or are forthcoming in The Literary Review Indiana Review, Rio Grande Review, PRISM International (Canada), Southeast Review, Nimrod, ONTHEBUS, Phantasmagoria, Vanguard (Australia), Descant (Canada), South Dakota Review, and Beloit Fiction Journal. Jaeger’s journalism appeared in the Lincoln Journal Star. He received his BA from Rollins College (Winter Park, Florida) and his MA and PhD from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He teaches writing at Hendrix College, and at Denver’s Lighthouse Writers. He received a Weldon Kees Writing Fellowship from the Nebraska Summer Writer’s conference, and was nominated for Best American New Voices, 2006. He served as an editorial assistant for Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry, a syndicated newspaper column publishing contemporary poetry nationwide, and he served as a Senior Fiction Reader for Prairie Schooner. He is represented by the Lazear Agency. Jaeger lives with his wife, Julee, in Conway, Arkansas.