An Evening with Tyler McAndrew

Join us for an evening with author Tyler McAndrew. McAndrew will read from his new collection My Prisoner and Other Stories from The Ohio State University Press. 

Set largely in the 1990s and early 2000s Rust Belt, My Prisoner and Other Stories gives us protagonists who repeatedly confront helplessness in the face of others’ suffering.
The structural forces that stain life in late-capitalist America—the prison system, economic desperation—lurk throughout these muscular and empathetic tales, but in the face of endemic adversity, shrewd and loving characters strive for and sometimes achieve hope and tenderness. Tyler McAndrew shows us an unadorned America that can still tap its capacity for human kindness.

“McAndrew doesn’t shrink from asking big moral questions, and his fiction abounds with lived-in touches and a sense of scale. Philosophical stories and memorable characters sure to spark debate.” —Kirkus

Following the reading and Q and A, there will be books for sale, and the author will be available to chat and sign copies.  

Tyler McAndrew was born and raised in Syracuse, New York. He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he teaches creative writing at both the University of Pittsburgh and CAPA 6–12, a magnet school for the arts in the Pittsburgh Public School District.