Gregory Tyler grew up outside Cleveland, Ohio, studied criminology and English at Ohio University (B.A., 2003), and spent seven years as an investigator for the Cuyahoga County Public Defender before earning an M.F.A. from Emerson College. He has worked as a court transcriptionist, a night dispatcher, and a records clerk—jobs that sharpened his ear for how secrets get filed and misfiled.
He writes procedural mysteries, civic noir, and literary suspense that orbit small-town institutions, unreliable archives, and the bargains people make to keep quiet. He is the author of the regional bestseller Salt in the Ledger (2019) and the Edgar Award–nominated Winterproof (2021), as well as The Unsaid Fugitive (2024).
Gregory Tyler lives in Providence, Rhode Island, with his partner and a rescue greyhound, and teaches occasional workshops on procedural storytelling and public-record research for writers.
