Tim Poland grew up in Ohio and now lives and works in the New River Valley near the Blue Ridge Mountains in southwestern Virginia.  

He is the author of the novel, The Safety of Deeper Water (Vandalia Press/West Virginia University Press, 2008), Escapee (America House, 2001), a collection of short fiction, and Other Stones, Kinder Temples (Pudding House, 2008), a chapbook of poems. His fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in various literary journals, such as North American Review, Cimarron Review, Beloit Fiction Journal, Literal Latte, Appalachian Heritage, Rattle, Main Street Rag, Sow's Ear Poetry Review, The Furnace Review, Stickman Review, and others.

 He is the recipient of a Plattner/Appalachian Heritage Award (2002), and his work has been included in the Best of the Net anthology (2007) and has also been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.  He is a professor of English at Radford University in Radford, Virginia.