Timothy grew up in Houston, within NASA’s pious penumbra. At seven, he endured mundane family trauma when his parents divorced, and he was forced to live with his mother against his will. By his twenties, when his brother was diagnosed with schizophrenia, Tim learned to appreciate the poetic humor in his own ‘tortured’ life. Escaping family and suffocating humidity, he found refuge in the redwoods on the edge of the Pacific and distraction in nature, science, and engineering. This led from psychology to biology to bioinformatics via degrees and a career along the way. While his head was occupied with writing code and scientific papers, his heart was beating stories colored by complicating human emotion. Timothy's debut novel is Will's Wake, and has been independently published under the imprint Umgapa Sky. Though he anticipated living alone with a cat, his wife and two adult children have rescued him from that ascetic fate. Presently, he’s most likely riding his bike with no hands near the ocean.