Tyler Ayres is a writer, editor, teacher, and musician.

But he used to do all kinds of things. For source material, Tyler has been a machinist, an English instructor, a fine dining waiter, an intelligence operator, a café musician, a freelance editor, a farm hand, a Mandarin translator, a forklift driver, a yoga teacher, and a knife peddler. Ask him about the time he put a small bakery out of business by balancing their books for the first time.

A graduate of Juniata College (BA), the Presidio of Monterey Foreign Language Center (BA), the University of Nebraska at Omaha (MA), Tyler lives for the moment in Pittsburgh and is pursuing a creative writing MFA in fiction at Chatham University.