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Tyrone Jaeger, MA

Tyrone Jaeger lives and writes 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 Indiana 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 from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he is soon to finish a PhD. He teaches writing at the University of Nebraska and at Denver’s Lighthouse Writers. He served as an editorial assistant for Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry, a syndicated newspaper column publishing contemporary poetry nationwide, and he currently is a Senior Fiction Reader for Prairie Schooner. Jaeger lives with his wife, Julee, in Lincoln, Nebraska.

This instructor has no new classes scheduled at this time.