Tyrese Coleman

Short Story, 2023

A writer, wife, mother, attorney, and writing instructor, Tyrese L. Coleman is the author of the story and essay collection and 2019 Pen Open Book Award finalist How to Sit (Mason Jar Press), and the forthcoming nonfiction book, Spectacle by One World, an imprint of Penguin Random House. 

Headshot of Tyrese Coleman, short story instructor for the 2023 Wildacres Writers Workshop.

Tyrese has published essays and stories in Washington Post Magazine, Black Warrior Review, Literary Hub, Parents Magazine, and The Kenyon Review, and her work has been noted in Best American Essays and The Pushcart Anthology.

She is an alum of the Writing Program at Johns Hopkins University.  

For more information, visit Tyrese’s website or follow her on Twitter: @tylachelleco