Tyler Phelps

Ty Phelps, MFA

Adjunct Faculty

Hibbs Hall, 900 Park Ave., room 233

Education

  • MFA, Fiction and Creative Nonfiction, VCU, 2022
  • MA, Secondary English Teaching, Lewis and Clark College, 2012
  • BA, English Literature, Carleton College, 2005

Research Interests

  • Creative Writing (Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry)
  • Narrative Theory/Narratology
  • American Postmodernism
  • Contemporary Short Story

Select Publications

  • Book Review of Luster by Raven Leilani for Blackbird, 2022
  • “Erik and George,” Streetlight, 2022
  • “Her Boy Who’s Made of Bees,” Zizzle, 2021
  • “The Boy Who Drowned the Mermaids,” Barstow and Grand, 2019
  • “What They Did When the Moon Died,” Clackamas Literary Review, 2019

Courses

  • ENGL 447: Form and Theory of Fiction
  • ENGL 307: Writing Fiction
  • ENGL 295: Reading and Writing of Fiction and Poetry

Awards

  • VCU Cabell First Novelist Award Fellowship, 2021–2022
  • Nancy Ludmerer Flash Fiction Fellowship, 2021
  • VCU Catherine and Joan Byrne Poetry Prize, 2019
  • Winner, The Gravity of the Thing Six Word Story Contest, 2016