About Timothy Green

Timothy Green is editor of Rattle magazine, host of the weekly Rattlecast, and co-host of The Poetry Space_. His radio programming regularly appears on KPFK-Los Angeles and his articles on poetry in the Press-Enterprise newspaper.

Timothy was born in Western New York in 1980. A Rush Rhees and Take Five Scholar at the University of Rochester, he 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. An earlier version of American Fractal won the Phi Kappa Phi Award from the University of Southern California, from which he graduated with a Masters in Professional Writing in 2009. 

He’s also the co-founder of the Wrightwood Arts & Wine Festival and the Wrightwood Arts Center. He lives in The Woodlands, Texas, with Katie Dozier. 

Publications

Books:

• American Fractal, Red Hen Press, February 2009.
• Hot Pink Moon (with Katie Dozier), August 2024.

Poems and Stories:

• “Treadwheel,” Arc Poetry, Fall 2024
• “First Memory,” Arc Poetry, Fall 2024
• “Nuptial,” Arc Poetry, Fall 2024
• “The End of Loneliness Is Not a Crowd,” Rosebud, 2024
• “night walk,” Acorn Haiku, Summer 2024
• “The Secret,” One Art, April 2024
• “High-End Hotel,” One Art, April 2024
• “The Royal Estate,” One Art, April 2024
• “Typical Day,” One Art, April 2024
• “Thanatosis,” One Art, March 2024
• “Macro,” East Ridge Review, Winter 2024
• “Museum of Natural History,” East Ridge Review, Winter 2024
• “still birdsong,” East Ridge Review, Winter 2024
• “weighted blanket,” East Ridge Review, Winter 2024
• “after divorce,” East Ridge Review, Winter 2024
• “many worlds,” Modern Haiku, Winter 2024
• “grandma’s kitchen,” North American Haiku Conference Anthology, Summer 2023
• “We Dug that Tunnel with Spoons,” b o d y, Summer 2023
• “Message from the Mojave,” b o d y, Summer 2023
• “The Seven Wonders of the World,” b o d y, Summer 2023
• “How to Apologize Like You Really Mean It,” Light, March 2023
• “Railroad Tracks,” One Art, February 2023
• “Guilt,” One Art, February 2023
• “Triolet for Tabby’s Star,” Rosebud, Summer 2022
• “Christina’s Bench,” Rosebud, Summer 2022
• “The Hard Problem of Consciousness,” Summerset Review, Summer 2022
• “Otzi,” James Dickey Review, 2021
• “Somewhere Outside the Hall of Fame,” James Dickey Review, 2021
• “Pre-Existing Conditions,” Pirene’s Fountain, 2018
• “George Bush Painting,” Pirene’s Fountain, 2017
• “At the Playground,” Pirene’s Fountain, 2017
• “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