Tyler Johnson is a writer and musician living in Galway, Ireland, having grown up in a log cabin near Scotchtown, Virginia. Traditional music and dance have long been integral to his life and work. His writing emerged from that Southern voice, but is influenced by an ear for other dialects and a taste for other cultures.
Tyler’s books include The Swamps that Close (2004), Tales from the Red Book of Tunes (2014), and Dancing the Haw (2015). His poems have appeared in The Carolina Quarterly, Iodine, The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, and Prairie Wolf Press Review.
Tyler is a regular contra and Irish set dancer. He plays the mandolin, Irish tenor banjo, and guitar for dances and for fun.