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Tyler Knott Gregson is a poet, author and professional photographer based out of Helena, Montana. Gregson has accrued fame as a poet on social media platforms such as Tumblr, Instagram and Twitter since 2009. He writes and posts a "Daily Haiku on Love," and a raw poem from his "Typewriter Series" every day currently.

Background
Gregson studied sociology and criminology at the University of Montana. He worked as a freelance writer for various companies, and begin blogging on his own in 2009. He says he has written poetry since being in middle school.

The inspiration for the "Daily Haiku" series was sparked on an airplane ride home from Florida. The "Typewriter Series" was born in 2012 when Gregson found an old typewriter in a Helena antique store and typed out a poem spontaneously. He said, "I just did it all at once and it was like stream of consciousness, I didn't plan it or think it through—I just let it go." The poet now challenges himself to post one of these every single day.

He also works as a professional wedding photographer at a company he co-founded, Tree House Photography.

Identifies as Buddhist.

Publication
Perigree, a division of Penguin Random House, picked up Gregson's "Typewriter series" and published selected poems from it into a compilation called Chasers of the Light in 2014. The collection of poetry was a top 10 bestseller of non-fiction within its second week of publication, according to the Wall street journal.