Tim Tomlinson is the author of Yolanda: An Oral History in Verse, Requiem for the Tree Fort I Set on Fire (poetry), and This is Not Happening to You (fiction). He is a founder and the director of New York Writers Workshop, and co-author of its popular text, The Portable MFA in Creative Writing. Recent work appears in Big City Lit, Flash Boulevard, Pank, Tin Can Literary Review Volume 2, and elsewhere. He teaches in NYU’s Global Liberal Studies.