TIM KENYON
writer | speaker | educator
Profile
Tim’s professional career spans more than three decades of writing, publishing, public speaking, and teaching. His writing career has focused primarily on prose projects that include four novels and a collection of short stories. He has also explored other creative ventures that include comic writer, publisher, screenwriter, and filmmaker. Tim also travels and lectures on the creative process of prose and comic writing. He teaches creative writing, composition, literature, film and comic studies at Saginaw Valley State University in Michigan.
Creative Portfolio
Current Project
Pandemica: Book 1 of the Pox Trilogy
Novel
2019
Blind Man's Bluff
Novel (completed manuscript)
2019-2020
Paradise Prison
5-Issue Comic Series
2017
Interstate
Graphic Novel (script)
2014
Three Little Bears
Short Film (writer / director)
2014
My Zombie Wife
Anthologized Comic Short
2012
Endtime: The Arrival
Graphic Novel
2010
The Weather Artist and Other Stories
Short Story Collection (completed manuscript)
2007
American Melancholy
Novel (completed manuscript)
2001
Ersatz Nation
Novel (published)
Speaking Engagements
May 2015
Toledo Public Library System
Guest Speaker - 2015 Summer Reading Program
Nov 2014
LitFest, Millikin University
Featured Writer
Sep 2014
Toledo Public Library System
Guest Speaker - Banned Book Week
Jun 2014
Small Press and Alternative Comic Expo
Moderator - Small Publishers Panel
Sep 2013
GrandCon
Co-Moderator - Small Publishers Panel
Jun 2011
Goddard College
Guest Speaker - The Post-M.F.A. Creative Life Seminar
Teaching
2006 - Present
Saginaw Valley State University
Univerity Center, MI
Lecturer of English
2005 - 2019
Delta College
Univerity Center, MI
Adjunct Instructor of English
2003 - 2006
Truckee Meadows Community College
Reno, NV
Adjunct Instructor of English
2003 - 2004
University of Nevada, Reno
Reno, NV
Adjunct Instructor of English
2003 - 2004
Veterans Upward Bound
Reno, NV