Bio
Tyler Richard Kalmakoff (July 28, 1987) is a journalist and writer living in Canada.
He is currently the president and director of 28 Productions Inc. and lead writer for Saskatoon Well Being Magazine (saskatoonwellbeing.com), all the while continuing to work on his fiction, some of which is archived on tylerkalmakoff.com, along with poetry, profiles, articles and short pieces of his memoirs.
Born and raised in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Kalmakoff attended Thompson Rivers University for five years, where he studied journalism, fiction writing, politics and nutrition. He covered Saskatchewan politics between semesters in university and wrote literary columns and reported on sporting events for the university’s student paper. His time on the university baseball team was short lived and he gave up the sport all-together due to a chronic hip problem in 2007. Kalmakoff was a member of Saskatchewan’s baseball development program throughout his teens and earned several American athletic scholarships, but chose to stay in Canada, close to his mother, Sharon Kalmakoff (1955-2008) who was suffering from heart disease. His father, Richard Kalmakoff (1953-1990) died two months prior to Tyler’s third birthday from bronchial pneumonia. Kalmakoff’s Ukrainian grandparents, Helen ‘Baba’ Oleksyn (1927-1998) and Joseph ‘Gedo’ Oleksyn (1926-1996), who were largely responsible for raising him, died from lung cancer and a brain aneurysm, respectively.
As a writer, Kalmakoff is known for his short stories, which take a great deal from his multitude of experiences with death at a young age.
As a boy, Kalmakoff took part in a number of sports — boxing, martial arts, track and field, hockey, soccer, football, basketball, baseball, bowling and go-karting, and he became competitive in several of them.
Kalmakoff is a self-described minimalist and agnostic who spends his free time reading and sitting high in the stands at the local speedway. He admires the positive thinking and genuineness of other men who continue to lead him along the path of increase and away from the path of average thinking. His cat, Roxy, is always nearby and there is little typical about him.
