His most recent poetry collection, Fast Animal, was a National Book Award Finalist in 2012. Tim is also the author of poetry collections Body Moves, Hurdy-Gurdy, Kerosene, Ten Miles an Hour, Buffalo Head Solos, and Hammerlock. An NEA Fellow in 1990, he also received the Open Voice Award from the National Writers Voice Project. In 2013 he received the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for poetry. He was a writing fellow as well as the writing coordinator at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. Before beginning to teach at Old Dominion, he spent a year living and writing in Cambridge. Recently his work has been featured in Red Brick Review, New Letters, Dark Eros, Ploughshares, New England Review, The Artful Dodge, and in E. Ethelbert Miller's anthology In Search of Color Everywhere.