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.

His work appears or is forthcoming in The Fourth River, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Uppagus, The Bookends Review, L’Esprit Literary Review, Line of Advance, and elsewhere.

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.