Brad Tyer

Brad Tyer
Houston native, 7th-generation Texan, and Rice grad Brad Tyer has contributed to the Observer as a writer and editor since the mid-1990s. He’s worked as music editor at the Houston Press and editor-in-chief of Missoula, Montana’s Independent; his freelance work has been published in The New York Times Book Review, Outside, High Country News, No Depression, and The Drake, among other venues. Brad was awarded a 2010 Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellowship at the University of Michigan and a 2011 grant from the Fund for Investigative Journalism to support research for his first book, Opportunity, Montana, published by Beacon Press in March, 2013.

  • Lost Houston

    Twenty-first century readers lucky enough to stumble into Sig Byrd’s Houston can be forgiven for wondering if such a place ever existed. Even Byrd—a [...] Full Story

  • Going with the Flow

    It was not my fight. That was not even my part of the country anymore; I had been living out of the state for [...] Full Story

  • One Man’s Trash Fish …

    Trash fish, trash fish swimming in the big ditchTrash fish, trash fish swimming in the big ditchAll the way from Jericho to the Gulf [...] Full Story

  • Writing into the Sunset

    There I was, sweating midnight puddles in a nylon tent at the Enchanted Rock campground, convincing myself that if I survived the swelter and [...] Full Story

  • Jerky Boy

    By the time you read this, it will officially be summertime, and I’ve got heat on the brain and meat on my mind. Partly [...] Full Story