Tyler Meier is the Poetry Center's Executive Director.  An alum of the UA's Academic Leadership Institute, he was recognized in 2019 by the University of Arizona with an Award for Excellence and in 2024 with the Friend of the Humanities Award from Arizona Humanities.  

He is an affiliated faculty member with the Department of English, and serves on the advisory boards of the W.A. Franke Honors College and the Humanities Seminars Program.  

Prior to coming to the Poetry Center, he served as managing editor at the Kenyon Review and co-director of the Kenyon Review Young Writers Workshop. 

His poetry and nonfiction have appeared in the Arizona Republic, Boston Review, Bat City Review, Indiana Review, jubilat, Poetry, Washington Square, Forklift, Ohio, Tupelo Quarterly and the anthology Truth to Power: Writers Respond to the Rhetoric of Hate.  With Naomi Shihab Nye and David Hassler, he is co-editor of Dear Vaccine: Global Voices Speak to the Pandemic.