Tyrone Jaeger teaches courses on creative nonfiction, fiction, hybrid literature, and digital storytelling. He is the author of the recent novel
Radio Eldorado
(Braddock Avenue Books, 2020), the story collection
So Many True Believers
and the cross-genre novella
The Runaway Note
. His writing has appeared in such journals as the
Oxford American
,
Southern Humanities Review
,
High Desert Journal,
and
The Literary Review
. 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. He frequently collaborates with the Hendrix-Murphy Foundation on reading series and symposia and programs events that bring award-winning authors from around the world to campus. Jaeger currently holds a Margaret Berry Hutton Odyssey Professorship with Maxine Payne called "Audiovisual Arkansas: Citizen Storytellers." Born and raised in the Catskill Mountains, Tyrone lives on Beaverfork Lake, Arkansas, with his wife and daughter.