Michael Tyrell is an American

United States

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 poet

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

, editor

Copy editing

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, actor

Actor

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, and writing teacher.

He received his MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop

Iowa Writers' Workshop

The Program in Creative Writing, more commonly known as the Iowa Writers' Workshop, at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, is a highly regarded graduate-level creative writing program in the United States...

 and has published his poems and reviews in many journals, including The New Yorker

The New Yorker

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, Ploughshares

Ploughshares

Ploughshares is an American literary magazine founded in 1971 by DeWitt Henry and Peter O'Malley in The Plough and Stars, an Irish pub in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Since 1989, Ploughshares has been based at Emerson College in the heart of Boston...

, and The Paris Review. He studied acting at New York University

New York University

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, where he currently teaches writing. From 2001 until 2007, he was the book review editor of the literary magazine Chelsea

Chelsea (magazine)

Chelsea was a small American, twice-a-year literary magazine based in New York City. The influential journal, edited for many years by Sonia Raiziss, published poetry, prose, book reviews and translations with an emphasis on translations, art, and cross-cultural exchange.-History:In 1958, The...

. Tyrell had a cameo in the 2007 movie Husband for Hire and has appeared in short films and the 2011 film Walk Away Renee.