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Tyrone Jaeger, Ph.D.

Yaeger, Ty

Tyrone Jaeger, Ph.D.

Interim Director of the Hendrix-Murphy Program in Literature & Language

Professor of English-Creative Writing

jaeger@hendrix.edu Murphy House 501-450-1388 http://www.tyronejaeger.com/

Biography

Tyrone Jaeger directs the Creative Writing Program and teaches courses on fiction writing, creative nonfiction writing, hybrid literature, digital storytelling, and Irish short stories. He is the author of the novel Radio Eldorado, the story collection So Many True Believers, the cross-genre novella The Runaway Note, and is co-founder of the multimedia project AV Arkansas: Citizen Storytellers. His writing appears in journals in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and Hong Kong, including Oxford American, Southern Humanities Review, and PRISM International. Jaeger is the recipient of the Porter Fund Literary Prize, an Arkansas Arts Council Individual Artist Grant in Novel Writing, the Theodore Christian Hoepfner Award, and the Frank O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. Born and raised in the Catskill Mountains, Tyrone lives on Beaverfork Lake, Arkansas, with his wife and daughter. 

Academic Background

  • B.A., Rollins College, 1990
  • M.A., University of Nebraska–Lincoln, 2004
  • Ph.D., University of Nebraska–Lincoln, 2008

2018 Porter Fund Literary Prize Awarded to Tyrone Jaeger

Hendrix English professor joins list of distinguished Arkansas-connected authors

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