Tyler Farrell received his undergraduate degree at Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska where he studied with Eamonn Wall. In 2002 he received his doctorate from UW-Milwaukee where he studied with James Liddy. Farrell is currently a visiting assistant professor at Marquette University, and lives in Madison, Wisconsin. His Morrissey imitations are said to be legendary. "A grand toast to love, friendship, merriment, and pleasure in place. Like a good drinking song, each poem wells up in ecstatic fellow feeling as Farrell's sensuous, intimate voice pours down the page, streaked with the lightning of literary influences and compatriots whom he has swept into a communion of the reverent, illuminating what it means to be alive."-Cynthia Belmont.