Tyler Robert Sheldon

Poet

Baton Rouge, LA
Louisiana US
Email: 
tyrsheldon@gmail.com
Website: 
www.TylerRobertSheldon.com
Twitter/X: 
@bathyorographer

Author's Bio

TYLER ROBERT SHELDON is the author of seven poetry collections including Everything is Ghosts (Finishing Line Press, November 2024) and When to Ask for Rain (Spartan Press, 2021), a finalist for the Birdy Poetry Prize. He is Editor-in-Chief of MockingHeart Review, and his poetry, fiction, artwork, and criticism have appeared in Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Pop Culture and Pedagogy, The Los Angeles Review, Pleiades, The Tulane Review, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and other venues. A Pushcart Prize nominee and recipient the Charles E. Walton Essay Award, he earned his PhD in English at LSU, where he studied the workd of William Stafford, Robert Lowell, and Kenneth Patchen and his MFA at McNeese State University. He lives in Baton Rouge. View his work at TylerRobertSheldon.com.

Education: 
McNeese State University MFA

Publications & Prizes

Books:
Everything is Ghosts (Finishing Line Press, 2024)
,
When to Ask for Rain (Spartan Press, 2021)
,
Against the Dark: Road Poems (Stubborn Mule Press, 2019)
,
Driving Together (Meadowlark Books, 2018)
Chapbooks:
Consolation Prize (Finishing Line Press, 2018)
,
Traumas (Yellow Flag Press, 2017)
,
First Breaths of Arrival (Oil Hill Press, 2016)
Journals:
Coal City Review
,
Los Angeles Review
,
Louisiana Literature
,
Midwest Quarterly
,
Pleiades
,
Quiddity International Literary Journal
,
The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature
,
The Dos Passos Review
,
Tinderbox Poetry Journal
Prizes won: 

Charles E. Walton Essay Award,

Dickens Project at LSU Essay Prize,

LSU Engaged Educator Distinction,

Robert J. Grover Graduate Scholarship,

AWP Intro Journals Award (nomination),

Pushcart Prize (nomination),

Birdy Poetry Prize (finalist),

Kansas Authors Club Contest for Free Verse Poetry (1st, 2nd, and 3rd place)

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
J.R.R. Tolkien Ursula K. Le Guin William Stafford Amy Fleury Albert Goldbarth Karen Russell Richard Bach Kim Addonizio Richard Hugo Patricia Traxler Allen Ginsberg Claudia Rankine Kai Carlson-Wee Geraldine Brooks Stephen King Marie Howe Art Spiegelman Marjane Satrapi Junji Ito Danielle Corsetto Andy Warner Alison Bechdel Scott McCloud Trina Robbins R. Crumb
What I'm reading now: 
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez, The Incomplete Projects by Carl Freedman, Skeleton Crew by Stephen King, Spring Rain by Andy Warner, The Kitchen Sink by Albert Goldbarth

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
White
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Wichita, KS
Kansas
Raised in: 
Hutchinson, KS
Kansas
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Last update: Aug 30, 2024