Tim J. Myers is a writer, songwriter, storyteller, and senior lecturer at Santa Clara University. His children’s books--11 out and four on the way--have won recognition from the New York Times, NPR, and the Smithsonian. He’s published over 120 poems, won a first prize in a poetry contest judged by John Updike, has two books of adult poetry out, and won a major prize in science fiction. He won the West Coast Songwriters Saratoga Chapter Song of the Year and the 2012 SCBWI Magazine Merit Award for Fiction. He can also whistle and hum at the same time.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
A Death-Defying Love: Versions of the Orpheus Myth
Ultimately, Orpheus doesn’t lose Eurydice because he fails but because life and death are so profoundly incompatible; the story reminds us of the abyss between them....
Visions of the Beast
Timothy Meyers discusses the various illustrators around the “East of the Sun, West of the Moon” folk tale....
Fairy Tale Series: On Norway's “East of the Sun, West of the Moon”
IN THE LATEST edition of our "Fairy Tale Series," four writers evaluate the unusual Norwegian folktale, East of the Sun, West ...
