Tim Cummings
Author of the best-selling coming-of-age novel, Alice the Cat, Tim Cummings earned his MFA in Writing for Young People from Antioch University Los Angeles. Publications of note include F(r)iction, Scare Street, Lunch Ticket, Meow Meow Pow Pow, From Whispers to Roars, Drunk Monkeys, Hare's Paw, Lit Angels, and Critical Read/RAFT, for which he won their ‘Origins’ contest for his essay, “You Have Changed Me Forever.” He has been a professional actor since childhood. He attended NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and earned his BFA in Acting. He has worked steadily for four decades and has received four LA Drama Critics Circle Awards for his work on the stages of Southern California. He teaches writing for UCLA Extension Writers' Program, The Townies, Inc in Ojai, runs several Writing Workshops per year, and coaches privately.
“Listen, we’ll come visit you. Okay? I’ll dress up as William Shakespeare, Lucent as Emily Dickinson, and beautiful ‘Ray’ as someone dashing and manly like Jules Verne or Ernest Hemingway...and we’ll write on your white-room walls. We’ll write you out of your supposed insanity. I love you, Micky Affias.-James (from "Descendants of the Eminent")”
“It’s easier for me to make sense of it that way than it is for me to face the other way—reality. And yet, those evil spirits that were unleashed—be they fake entities from a stupid carnival ride, or cruel malevolencies from dark spiritual chasms of our universe—have stayed with me all these years”
“I leave the kitchen table to bathe, and to dress for church. If only my closet held on its shelves an array of faces I could wear rather than dresses, I would know which face to put on today. As for the dresses, I haven't a clue.”