Tim Tomlinson is a co-founder of New York Writers Workshop and co-author of its popular text, The Portable MFA in Creative Writing. He is also the author of the chapbook Yolanda: An Oral History in Verse, the poetry collection Requiem for the Tree Fort I Set on Fire, and the collection of short fiction, This Is Not Happening to You. His work has been published in Australia, China, India, Singapore, the Philippines, and in many venues in the US, including the anthologies Long Island Noir, and the Brooklyn Poets Anthology. He’s run workshops in poetry and prose at many international locations, including Australia, China, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand. He’s a certified yoga instructor, an avid scuba diver, and his past addresses include extended residencies in Shanghai, Manila, London, Florence, New Orleans, Boston, Miami, Andros Island, Bahamas, Manhattan, and Brooklyn, where he currently lives with his wife. He is on the Advisory Board of Asia Pacific Writers & Translators, and Whatabook (India). He’s been teaching in NYU’s Global Liberal Studies since the early 1990s.
Tim Tomlinson
Clinical Professor
M.F.A. – Columbia University, School of the Arts
B.A. – Columbia University, General Studies
Writing Narrative Prose and Poetry; Film; Addiction Studies; Music; Coral Reefs
2016 – Liberal Studies Full-Semester Equivalency Grant
2015 – Liberal Studies Dean’s Global Initiative
This Is Not Happening to You, Winter Goose, NH, 2017
Requiem for the Tree Fort I Set on Fire, Winter Goose, NH, 2016
Yolanda: An Oral History in Verse, Finishing Line Press, 2015
The Portable MFA in Creative Writing, Writer’s Digest, OH, 2006