Tim Weed’s debut novel, Will Poole’s Island (Namelos, 2014), was named one of Bank Street College of Education’s Best Books of the Year. His short fiction and essays have won Writer’s Digest Popular Fiction and Solas Best Travel Writing awards, and have appeared or are forthcoming in Colorado Review, Gulf Coast, Saranac Review, Bloom, Talking Points Memo, Writer's Chronicle, Backcountry, and many other reviews and magazines. Tim teaches at Grub Street in Boston and in the MFA Writing program at Western Connecticut State University, and serves as a featured expert for National Geographic Expeditions in Cuba, Spain, and Patagonia. Read more at timweed.net.