Tyler Bell

Tyler Bell was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he read. A lot. And thought about writing his own books. The towers falling on 9/11 changed his plans for the future and, five years later, Tyler was clapped up in body armor with Second Battalion, Eighth Marines outside Fallujah. He completed three combat deployments as an infantry machine gunner and rejoined society angry about being alive when other people weren't. Writing saved his life. He started with journalism in college and found himself...See more

Tyler Bell was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he read. A lot. And thought about writing his own books. The towers falling on 9/11 changed his plans for the future and, five years later, Tyler was clapped up in body armor with Second Battalion, Eighth Marines outside Fallujah. He completed three combat deployments as an infantry machine gunner and rejoined society angry about being alive when other people weren't. Writing saved his life. He started with journalism in college and found himself going out more, wanting to know about people. He could feel the world through their stories, through the scrawls they left on the inside of his skull, more than he could feel using his own skin. He found the shards of the person he could become inside others, and he slowly, painstakingly put himself back together. He moved to Charleston, West Virginia, where he fell in love with the state and started writing for himself, committing to paper the stories he couldn't write for the news. The true lives of folks the world always seemed ready to write off and forget - he wrote about them. He now lives in Louisville, Kentucky, with his wife Sam, their dog Buck, and their three rabbits: Marcel, Rosie, and Warren G (Sweetcheeks). See less