tyler has never done anything right in their life

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

​less short: Tyler is a trans character, poet, and teacher. Their work has shared space with Electric Literature, Foglifter Journal, The Offing, Black Warrior Review, Split Lip Magazine, Salt Hill Journal, The Journal, and elsewhere. They're currently a reader for The Maine Review 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. Their work has been supported by the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, the Community of Writers Poetry Workshop, and the Tin House Summer Workshop. They feel most at home near rivers, and they were a 2023-2024 Poetry Fellow at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center.

Tyler is working on: poems about and in the form of commercials, poem-proses-genrequeer darlings about loneliness, transness, and the internet, poems about beauty, asymmetry, and pop culture, Tyler, 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, placing a full-length manuscript and a chapbook