Timothy Gager is the author of nine books of short fiction and poetry. His latest, Anti-Social Network (Red Neck Press) features over thirty poems, many previously published in various literary magazines. He has hosted the successful Dire Literary Series in Cambridge, Massachusetts, every month for the past eleven years and is the co-founder of Somerville News Writers Festival.
His poetry and fiction has appeared in over 250 journals since 2007, and of which nine of his pieces have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His work has been read on National Public Radio.
Timothy was formerly the Fiction Editor of The Wilderness House Literary Review, the founding co-editor of The Heat City Literary Review and has edited the book, Out of the Blue Writers Unite: A Book of Poetry and Prose from the Out of the Blue Art Gallery.
You go back when you can’t deal. It’s kind of like jail, when you come back, you commit a crime so that you don’t have to face anything. There’re only so many days of polishing the boots you have at your home, while your wife is making excuses to go to The Home Depot. “What do you think I did… Read more →