Tyler Dempsey is the author of Newspaper Drumsticks (Book Merah, ’21) and Time as a Sort of Enemy (Forthcoming, Gob Pile Press, ‘22.) His work appears in Schuylkill Valley Journal, Bear Creek Gazette, Rejection Letters, and the like. He's a fiction reader at X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine. Find him on Twitter @tylercdempsey.