Tim Myers

Teaching Professor

Tim J. Myers has over 43 years' experience as a classroom and university teacher in English and education, was a university teacher educator for 19 years, and is now full-time in English.

He's also a widely-published writer for children and adults. He has 21 children's books out (one of which was a New York Times best-seller and was read aloud on NPR) and one more on the way. He's published five books of adult poetry (one got a great review from poet Grace Cavalieri and won an Outstanding Poetry Award from the Wisconsin Librarians Association) and has published over 140 individual poems. His Glad to Be Dad: A Call to Fatherhood was featured on the Parents Magazine website, won the inaugural Ben Franklin Digital Award, and came in at #5 on Amazon's "Hot New Releases in Fatherhood." Tim's been nominated for two Pushcarts, won a prize in the Writers of the Future Contest for science fiction/fantasy, and has published much other fiction and nonfiction. He’s also published fifty-five pieces of visual art.

He's also a professional storyteller and a songwriter; his "When Lady Smiled at Me" won the Dan Howell Song of the Year for the Saratoga chapter of the West Coast Songwriters. And he's the oldest of 11 children and can whistle and hum at the same time.

TV interview of Tim on children's literature.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Iz27TcQK6A

Review by Los Angeles Review of Books:

https://lareviewofbooks.org/contributor/tim-myers/#!

Review of Tim's Dear Beast Loveliness by Grace Cavalieri:

http://www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/july-exemplars-poetry-reviews-by-grace-cavalieri

Research Interests

Writing/the writing life
Literature
Oral Storytelling/folklore
Songwriting
Poetry
Musicals
Theology/philosophy/spirituality
Visual art
History and culture
Political rhetoric
Sports and values
Family/parenting/fatherhood
Movies/screenwriting

www.TimMyersStorySong.com

http://www.youtube.com/TimJMyers

Courses

ENGL 1: Critical Thinking & Writing I
ENGL 2: Critical Thinking & Writing II
ENGL 104 Teaching Writing
ENGL 106: Advanced Writing: Myth, Fairy Tale, Urban Legend
ENGL 160: Children's Literature
ENGL 170: Creative Writing for Children and Young Adults
ENGL 177 Writing Genre Fiction

Publications

Books:

Myers, T.J. (2022). Sweet Dreams, Pixie Littlings! Cricket Media (ebook).
Myers, T.J. (2022). Fox Wedding. Cricket Media (ebook).
Myers, T.J. (2022). The Kappa and the Farmer. Cricket Media (ebook).
Myers, T.J. (January 21 2020). All the Fierce Complexities of Hunger (poetry volume). Shanti Arts.
Myers, T.J. (April 1, 2019). Nagano Apples. Cricket Media (ebook).
Myers, T.J. (March 12 2019). Yao Bai and the Egg Pirates (children's picture book). West Margin Press.
Myers, T.J. (November 16, 2018). Down in the White of the Tree: Spiritual Poems. Regal House Publishing.
Myers, T.J. (January 1, 2018). Three Aunties. Cricket Media (ebook).
Myers, T.J. (in press). Amado (children's picture book). Floricanto Press.
Myers, T. J. and M. Priscilla Myers (March 8 2016). Full of Empty (children's picture book). Familius. A Chinese version is in press.
Myers, T.J. (June 17 2015). Nectar of Story: Poems. BlazeVox.
Myers, T.J. Myers (July 2015). The Thunder Egg (children's picture book). Wisdom Tales.
Myers, T.J. Myers (November 1 2014). The Christmas Stick (children's picture book). Paraclete.
Myers, T.J. Myers (August 12 2014). Rude Dude's Book of Food (children's book). Familius.
Myers, T.J. (March 2013). Dear Beast Loveliness: Poems of the Body. BlazeVox.
Myers, T.J. (July 27, 2012). Glad to Be Dad: A Call to Fatherhood. E-book. Familius. Print version spring 2013. Serialized on Menstuff.org (Starting April 2013).
Myers, T.J. (April 2, 2013). Down at the Dino Wash Deluxe (children's picture book). Sterling Children's Books.
Myers, T.J. (October, 2009). Looking for Luna (children's picture book). Marshall Cavendish Children's Books.
Myers, T.J. (September, 2007). If You Give a T-Rex a Bone (children's picture book). Dawn Publications.
Myers, T.J. (September, 2007). The Out-Foxed Fox (children's picture book). Tarrytown, NY: Marshall Cavendish Children's Books.
Myers, T.J. (March, 2007). The Furry-Legged Teapot (children's picture book). Tarrytown, NY: Marshall Cavendish Children's Books.
Myers, T.J. (2007). That Mass at Which the Tongue Is Celebrant (poetry chapbook). Pecan Grove Press.
Myers, T.J. (March, 2006). Dark-Sparkle Tea and Other Bedtime Poems (children's picture book). Wordsong, Boyds Mill Press.
Myers, T.J. (October, 2005). Good Babies (children's picture book). Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press.
Myers, T.J. (September, 2004). Basho and the River Stones (children's picture book). Tarrytown, NY: Marshall Cavendish Children's Books.
Myers, T.J. (April, 2003). Tanuki’s Gift (children's picture book). Tarrytown, NY: Marshall Cavendish Children’s Books.
Myers, T.J. (September, 2000). Basho and the Fox (children's picture book). Tarrytown, NY: Marshall Cavendish Children's Books.
Myers, T.J. (1993). Let’s Call Him Lauwiliwili... (children's picture book) Honolulu, Hawaii: Bess Press.