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Tim Myers

Living With the Future
The Fire This Time
Facing the twin pandemics with James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time

Tim J. Myers is a writer, songwriter, storyteller, visual artist, and Teaching Professor at Santa Clara University in Silicon Valley. His children’s books have been recognized by the New York Times, NPR, and the Smithsonian, with 21 traditionally-published. He’s placed over 150 poems, won a first prize in a poetry contest judged by John Updike, has five books of adult poetry out, published a fatherhood book, won a major prize in science fiction, and has 50 visual artworks in journals or on websites. He won the West Coast Songwriters Saratoga Chapter Song of the Year and the 2012 SCBWI Magazine Award for Fiction. www.TimMyersStorySong.com