About Tim W. Brown

Bio

TIM W. BROWN was born and raised in Rockford, Illinois. In 1983 he graduated summa cum laude from Northern Illinois University with a degree in American studies. He is the author of four novels, Deconstruction Acres (1997), Left of the Loop (2001), Walking Man (2008), and Second Acts (2010), which won the 2010 London Book Festival Award for General Fiction.

Brown's fiction, poetry, and nonfiction have appeared in over two hundred publications, including Another Chicago Magazine, The Bloomsbury Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Chelsea, Chiron Review, Colorado Review, The Fiction Review, The Ledge, Main Street Rag, New Observations, Oyez Review, Pleiades, Poetry Project Newsletter, Rain Taxi Review of Books, Rockford Review, Slipstream, Small Press Review, and Storyhead.

He has performed his work in numerous venues and contexts, including New York City, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Long Island, Boston, Cambridge, Providence, Washington, DC, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, Madison, Minneapolis, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Denver, Seattle, and elsewhere.

Since 2017, Brown has been the co-host with Amy Joy Robateau of the biweekly Art in the Basin open mic series at Mon Amour Coffee & Wine in the Bronx, New York.

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