Tim Cummings

Tim Cummings holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles and a BFA in Acting from New York University/Tisch School of the Arts. Recent publications include works in F(r)iction, Scare Street, Lunch Ticket, Meow Meow Pow Pow, From Whispers to Roars, and Critical Read, for which he won the 2019 "Origins" essay contest and also received a Pushcart Prize nomination for his piece, "You Have Changed Me Forever." A regular contributor at LA Review of Books (LARB), he writes features, reviews, and interviews. As an actor, he is the recipient of three Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards for his work on the stages of LA. Tim is represented by literary agent Charlie Olsen at Inkwell Management. His debut novel, ALICE THE CAT, will be published in 2023 by Fitzroy Books, an imprint of Regal House Publishing.

Early Life
Timothy P. Cummings/Tim Cummings grew up in Port Jefferson, New York.

Goals
To write edgy unpredictable and adventurous coming-of-age books for kids and adults;

To convey the mercurial truths of being an artist, and how art heals society;

To continue running successful Writing Workshops as a means to foster community.

Inspirations
"'Growing up, I mostly bled inspiration from post-punk, alt-rock, goth-gurus like Siouxsie Sioux and Robert Smith and towering anomalies like David Bowie and Grace Jones. It seems so trendy and hipster to bring them up now, but back in their heyday, when I was a young teenager, they were weird, revolutionary creative behemoths. I culled a fearlessness in both outward appearance and inner expression from them, one that helped me rise above the utterly stifling working-class machismo and sad, conservative ignorance of my hometown, which plagued me for so many years. But if paying respects to the authors that started me on my writing journey, I owe mad props to E.B. White, Robert C. O’Brien and Richard Adams. Their books about animals moved and changed me irrevocably. Spiders, crickets, rabbits, and rats! In my adult years, that same respect I must fling to Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Colson Whitehead, Kazuo Ishiguro, Haruki Murakami, Annie Proulx, Gabriel García Márquez, and James Baldwin.'"

Publications
F(r)iction

Scare Street

Lunch Ticket

From Whispers to Roars

Meow Meow Pow Pow

Critical Read, AKA 'Raft'