Tim Hawkins has lived and traveled widely throughout North America, Southeast Asia, and Latin America, where he has worked as a journalist, technical writer, communications manager and teacher in international schools. His career has also taken some interesting detours into such posts as fish cannery slime table worker, stevedore, nose-hair clipper model and cram school teacher. After spending much of the '90's and '00's abroad, he currently lives in his hometown of Grand Rapids, Michigan. His writing has appeared in numerous print and online publications in the past decade, including Blueline, Eclectica, The Flea, Iron Horse Literary Review, The Literary Bohemian, The Midwest Quarterly, The Pedestal Magazine, Underground Voices and many others. In 2012, he published his first poetry collection, Wanderings at Deadline (Aldrich Press) and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Find out more about his writing and read some of his work at www.timhawkinspoetry.com .