Timothy Green was born in Western New York in 1980. A Rush Rhees and Take Five Scholar at the University of Rochester, Green studied English, biochemistry, psychology, and eastern philosophy, and worked as a technician in a molecular biology lab, supporting research on mRNA binding structures. He graduated magna cum laude in 2003, earning awards from Phi Beta Kappa, the Golden Key National Honors Society, and the Academy of American Poets.

For two years Green remained in Rochester, working as a group home counselor for adults with schizophrenia.

In 2004, he moved to Southern California to become assistant editor and then editor of Rattle, now one of the widest-circulating poetry magazines in the world.

American Fractal, Timothy Green’s first book-length collection of poetry, was published by Red Hen Press in 2009. His poems and short stories have appeared in dozens of publications, including The Connecticut Review, Florida Review, Fugue, Gargoyle, Los Angeles Review, Mid-American Review, Nimrod International Journal, Paterson Literary Review, and Runes. An earlier version of American Fractal won the Phi Kappa Phi Student Recognition Award from the University of Southern California, from which he graduated with a Masters in Professional Writing in 2009.

Timothy Green is also co-founder of the annual Wrightwood Literary Festival, and a contributing columnist for the Press-Enterprise newspaper. He lives in the mountains near Los Angeles with his wife, Megan Green, and their two children.

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Publications

Books:

• American Fractal, Red Hen Press, February 2009.

Poems and Stories:

• “Mystic Crackers” – Connu, Winter 2014
• “What Passes for Optimism at MacArthur Park” – Subtropics, 2009
• “The Body” – Mid-American Review, Fall 2008
• “Pluots & Apriums” – Mid-American Review, Fall 2008
• “Poem from Dark Matter” – Connecticut Review, Fall 2008
• “Fifty-Hour Online Gaming Binge Proves Fatal” – Connecticut Review, Fall 2008
• “Playing Our Part” – Connecticut Review, Fall 2008
• “Appluading the Gods” – Los Angeles Review, Fall 2008
• “Man Auctions Ad Space on Forehead” – Paterson Literary Review #37, Fall 2008
• “A Constant Lack of Hunger” – Hazmat Lit. Review #10.1, Summer 2008
• “The Good Times” – Hiram Poetry Review #69, Spring 2008
• “Advice to a Better Poet” – Cutthroat #5, Summer 2008
• “Poem from the Homeland” – Cutthroat #5, Summer 2008
• “American Fractal” – Runes, 2007
• “Apocrypha” – Caduceus, Fall 2007
• “A Tourist’s Guide Through Big Sky Country” – Caduceus, Fall 2007
• “Cheers” – Lungfull! #15, Fall 2007
• “Lecture Notes on Wittgenstein Driving South” – H_ngm_n #7, Fall 2007
• “The Urge to Break Things” – H_ngm_n #7, Fall 2007
• “Saddled” – Pearl #35, Spring/Summer 2007
• “Sculptures” – Fugue #31, Spring 2007
• “Midnight Mass” – Rock Salt Plum Review, Spring 2007
• “To Montevideo” – Rock Salt Plum Review, Spring 2007
• “After Hopper” – Pedestal Magazine #36, Fall 2006
• “Thanksgiving Was Over” – Blood Orange Review #1.5, Fall 2006
• “High on Hog” – Blood Orange Review #1.4 , Fall 2006
• “Letter to Someone I Barely Remember” – Flordia Review #29.2, Fall 2006
• “Diorama in A-minor” – Gargoyle #51, Summer 2006
• “2.9” – Spillway #12, Winter 2005
• “Beating Balaam’s Ass” – Spillway #12, Winter 2005
• “He Tells Too Much” – Cranky #4, Fall 2005
• “The Sense of Being Looked At” – Cranky #4, Fall 2005
• “The Memory of Water” – Crab Creek Review, 2005
• “Impressionism” – Nimrod International Journal, Fall 2005
• “The Bending of Birches ” – Nimrod International Journal, Fall 2005
• “Beach Scene” – Slipstream #25, Fall 2005
• “Death and Anti-Intellectualism” – Portland Review, Spring/Summer 2005
• “Fragility” – Portland Review, Spring/Summer 2005
• “On the Phone My Mother” – Euphony #5.2, Summer 2005
• “Microcassette” – Poetry Midwest #12, Winter 2005
• “White Noise” – Poetry Midwest #12, Winter 2005
• “Hiking Alone” – Confrontation #86/87, Spring/Summer 2004
• “Hiking Together ” – Confrontation #86/87, Spring/Summer 2004
• “Some Proof” – Diner #4.1, Spring/Summer 2004
• “Cooking Dinner” – Rattle #22, Winter 2004

Essays and Reviews

• “Making Rattle Rattle,” Café Review, forthcoming, Winter 2009
• “The Poetic Gimmick: Matthea Harvey’s Abecedarianism,” Easy Tiger, Fall 2008
• “Buried in Ash: At the Drive-in Volcano,” Los Angeles Review, Fall 2008
• “Like an Inside Joke at the Comedy Club: Public vs. Private Poetry,” Byline Magazine, October 2007

Lectures and Workshops

• “The Game of Getting Published,” Santa Barbara Writers’ Workshop, August 2010
• “Poetry and the Subconscious,” RochesterInk Poetry Festival, October 2007
• “Building the Editor’s Desk,” Writers & Books, October 2007
• “A Writing Life,” SUNY Binghamton, October 2007
• “Poetry Editing for Editors,” Rochester Institute of Technology, October 2007