Kyle Decker

Kyle is a Chicago-based author, educator, and punk vocalist. Kyle is a graduate of Drake University in Des Moines, IA where he majored in writing. He also holds a Master’s of Education from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

From 2013 to 2018 he lived in Daegu, South Korea where he worked as an English teacher, DIY concert promoter, headed the local chapter of Liberty in North Korea, fronted the punk band Food for Worms, and was a frequent contributor to bROKe in Korea, Angle Magazine, and The Daegu Compass. His work has also appeared in The Korea Times. In 2024 he became a regular contributor to In the Loop Magazine.

His fiction work has appeared in The Molotov Cocktail, Mystery Magazine, Hyphen-Punk, Mystery Tribune, Punk Noir Magazine, and Shotgun Honey. He self-published his novella, Cannon Fodder (or The Secret Lives of Henchmen) in 2013. And his debut novel This Rancid Mill was released by PM Press in April 2023.

He currently teaches high school special education and English as a second language and fronts the bands Bad Chemicals and The Head Caution.