The former board chair of the North Texas Literary organization, WordSpace, he is currently a High School Instructor at Uplift Peak Academy where he is helping set-up an International Baccalaureate program. He is the founder of the poetry/ performance troupe Dancing Tongue and has worked with Poetry Circus and Question Authority, both acclaimed performance poetry ensembles. His work has been seen in a number of publications and he, along with Patty Turner and David Davis, published the influential chapbook Three Dallas Poets in 1986. Tim holds a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Dallas. He is currently completing his book The City That Killed the President: A Cultural History of Dallas and the Kennedy Assassination.