Tyler Dunston is a writer, visual artist, educator, and scholar from Chattanooga, Tennessee. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he is a Ph.D. candidate in English literature at the University of Michigan and the poetry editor for Michigan Quarterly Review. He is the author of the poetry chapbook Octaves, which was a finalist for the Moonstone Press Chapbook Contest.
His poems can be found in Narrative Magazine, Southwest Review, Nimrod International Journal, The Brooklyn Review, Strange Hymnal, Crab Creek Review, and other journals. His critical work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Los Angeles Review of Books, the John Donne Journal: Studies in the Age of Donne, Michigan Quarterly Review (online), the Journal of Marlowe Studies, Treble, Consequence of Sound, and elsewhere. His paintings, sculptures, and mixed media work have been featured in a variety of juried exhibitions, most recently at the Gutman Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Tyler Dunston received his M.F.A. in poetry from Boston University and his B.A. in English with a minor in Art Practice from Stanford University. His work has been supported by scholarships and awards from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Hopwood Awards, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown’s summer workshop program, Stanford University, and Boston University.
