Tyler R Moore is a writer from Ashwaubenon, Wisconsin. He is currently a first-year MFA candidate in fiction at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He holds a BA in English and film production from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Tyler is the 2021 recipient of the Eudora Welty Fiction Thesis Prize as well as the 2021 recipient of the Phillip H. Wang Memorial Prize in Poetry. His work is published, or forthcoming, in Michigan Quarterly Review and elsewhere.