TIM J. MYERS Writer & Storyteller BIOGRAPHY I BOOKS I PRESENTATIONS I BOOK ORDERING
Tim's placed numerous pieces with top children's magazines (Cricket group, Cobblestone group, Appleseeds, Storyworks, Highlights, New Moon). He won a national poetry contest judged by John Updike and published an adult poetry chapbook. He has won a prize in the international Writers of the Future Contest for science fiction/fantasy. Tim has published a lot of other fiction, non-fiction and poetry for children and adults. He was a SCBWI Golden Kite picture-book judge for 2002 and recently sold his tenth children's book and it will be coming out from Marshall Cavendish. Tim spent fourteen years as a classroom teacher in the States and overseas, has 15 years' university teaching experience (he currently teaches at Santa Clara University in the Bay Area), and has been a professional storyteller for 25 years. His wife directs the reading program at Santa Clara University, his older son recently graduated from Cornell and is working on a masters in English in Fairbanks, Alaska, his younger son is a New York University graduate going into the Coast Guard, and his daughter is a book-gluttonous middle-schooler. Tim is the oldest of eleven children and can actually whistle and hum at the same time. He lives in Santa Clara, California.
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Tim
J. Myers is a writer, songwriter and storyteller. His Tanuki's
Gift (2003) got an excellent boxed review with art in the
New York Times and was chosen as a Best Book of the Year
by Nick Jr. Magazine, among other honors. Basho
and the Fox (2000) was read aloud on NPR by Daniel Pinkwater,
made the New York Times bestseller list for children's
books, and was chosen as a Smithsonian Notable Children's
Book, a Children's Book Council "Not Just for Children Anymore"
selection, and a Bank Street Irma Black Honor Book, among other
honors.