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Timothy Myers, M.A.
Lecturer
Tim Myers is a writer, songwriter, storyteller, and lecturer in the Education and English departments. He has 14 years experience as a middle-school and high-school teacher and 15 years in university education. His Dark-Sparkle Tea (Wordsong ‘06), a book of bedtime poems, earned excellent reviews from Kirkus, childrenslit.com, and others. Good Babies (Candlewick ’05) earned strong reviews from Kirkus, the School Library Journal, and others. Basho and the River Stones (Cavendish ‘04) was a Junior Library Guild selection, among other honors. Read aloud on NPR, Basho and the Fox (Cavendish 2000) was a New York Times bestseller and Smithsonian Notable Children’s Book, among other honors. Tanuki’s Gift (Cavendish ’01) earned an excellent boxed review in the New York Times and was a Nick Jr. Magazine "Book of the Year" for 2003. Tim has three new children’s books in press, has published over 100 poems (Rattle, Northeast, national anthologies), won a poetry contest judged by John Updike, and has a chapbook, That Mass at Which the Tongue Is Celebrant, coming out from Pecan Grove Press. He was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize, has articles in Media Ethics and New York State History, has placed stories with Indy Men’s, MacGuffin, ELF, and The Bryant Literary Review, won a prize in an international science-fiction contest, and has published much other fiction and non-fiction for adults and children. He can also whistle and hum at the same time.
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