Born and raised in the Catskill Mountains, Tyrone Jaeger has lived in a trailer, a farmhouse, a cinderblock laundry shack, various dormitories, a condo, a cabin, multiple basements, a triplex, a fourplex, a dome, a tower, and with his wife has recently retreated to a lakeside bunker. A graduate of the PhD program in creative writing at the University of Nebraska, he currently teaches at Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas. His work is published in Toad Suck Review, The Oxford American, The Cupboard, The Literary Review, Indiana Review, Southern Humanities Review, Descant, Exquisite Corpse Annual, and many others. He writes a regular column, A State of Wonder: Notes from the Upland South, for The Oxford American. The Runaway Note (Shakespeare & Company, Toad Suck) is his first book-length publication.