short: Ty Raso (she/they) is a queer ball of yarn. A rapscallion. Ty Raso has dandelions for hands. 

​less short: Ty(ler) is a trans character, poet, and teacher. Her work has shared space with POETRY, Electric Literature, The Adroit Journal, Foglifter Journal, The Offing, Black Warrior Review, Split Lip Magazine, Salt Hill Journal, The Journal, and elsewhere. They're currently a reader for Muzzle Magazine, and have worked on the teams of the Kenyon Review, pidgeonholes, and the Indiana Review, where they were the 2021-2022 Nonfiction Editor. They earned their MFA from Indiana University, where they were awarded a 2022-2023 Kraft-Kinsey Award/Residency, and the 2023 Earle J. S. Ho Award for the Teaching of Creative Writing. Her work has been supported by the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, the Community of Writers Poetry Workshop, and the Tin House Summer Workshop. She feels most at home near rivers, and they were a 2023-2024 and 2025-2026 Poetry Fellow at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, and a 2025 Djanikian Scholar with the Adroit Journal. Her chapbook, no seed yes seed, is forthcoming with kith books, and her debut full-length collection, Mirror Would Be A Beautiful Name for A Child is forthcoming with Noemi Press. You can find her on Instagram @spaghetti_utopia.

Ty is working on: poems about and in the form of commercials, poem-proses-genrequeer work about loneliness, transness, and the internet, poems about beauty, asymmetry, and pop culture, Ty(ler), rest, prose about place(lessness), loving and being loved by the moon, being less online, going for walks, revising, revising, estrogen, estrogen, revising, body as home, this list