Michael Tyrell

For the Antiguan-born drug trafficker, see Michael Tyrrell.

Michael Tyrell (born Brooklyn, New York) is an American poet, editor, actor, and writing teacher.^[1]

He received his MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and has published his poems and reviews in many journals, including The New Yorker, Ploughshares, and The Paris Review. He studied acting at New York University, where he currently teaches writing. From 2001 until 2007, he was the book review editor of the literary magazine Chelsea. Tyrell had a cameo in the 2007 movie Husband for Hire and has appeared in short films and the 2011 film Walk Away Renee.^[2]

Works

• Test Pilot Puppy. Illustrators Dave Cooper, Min S. Ku. Scholastic. 2006. ISBN 9780439744041. 

• Julia Kasdorf, Michael Tyrell, ed (April, 2007). Broken Land: Poems of Brooklyn. New York University. ISBN 9780814748039. http://books.google.com/books?id=Jf-5ev0NfT8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Michael+Tyrell&cd=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 

Anthologies

• Cool Thing (Running Press, 2008).

References

1. ^ Ploughshares, the literary journal
2. ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2783168/

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Name	Tyrell, Michael
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Short description	Poet, editor, actor, teacher
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Place of birth	Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States
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