Tim J. Myers is a writer, songwriter, storyteller, and senior lecturer at Santa Clara University. His children's books have won recognition from the New York Times, NPR, and the Smithsonian; he has 15 out and more on the way. He's published over 140 poems, won a first prize in a poetry contest judged by John Updike, has three books of adult poetry out, published a nonfiction book on fatherhood, and won a major prize in science fiction. He also won the West Coast Songwriters Saratoga Chapter Song of the Year Award and the 2012 SCBWI Magazine Merit Award for Fiction.