Tyler Keith

Tyler Keith was born and raised in the Panhandle of Florida. He moved to Mississippi at eighteen and received a degree in English Literature at University of Mississippi where he studied writing under Barry Hannah. He spent the next twenty years writing songs and playing in the bands the Neckbones, Tyler Keith and the Preacher’s Kids, Tyler Keith and the Apostles, and Teardrop City, making fourteen albums and touring in the U.S. and Europe. In 2013 he wrote and performed a musical play called “the Outlaw Biker.” He returned to the University of Mississippi and received a master’s degree in Southern Studies, and an MFA in Documentary Expression. His first novel, The Mark of Cain, appeared in 2022. It was nominated for the award in fiction from the Mississippi Institute for Arts and Letters in 2023.