Tim Cummings ‘18 (Los Angeles, MFA) will have his young adult novel, The Thistle, The I-H, & The 8 Hugging Snakes, will be published by Black Rose Writing in the summer of 2025.
Cummings is the author of the best-selling coming-of-age novel, Alice the Cat, published in 2023 by Fitzroy Books/Regal House. It was chosen as an American Books Awards ‘Best Book’ Finalist for 2023 and received a Bronze Medal in the 2024 Feathered Quill Book Awards.
Since 1984, he has appeared in over 200 projects across theatre, film, television, voice-over, and new media. Recent publications of short fiction, essays, and poetry include F(r)iction, Scare Street, Lunch Ticket, MeowMeow PowPow, From Whispers to Roars, Drunk Monkeys, Hare’s Paw, Lit Angels, and Critical Read/RAFT, for which he won the ‘Origins’ contest for his essay, You Have Changed Me Forever.
He teaches writing for UCLA Extension Writers’ Program, The Townies Inc. in Ojai, runs private workshops, and coaches authors. He holds a BFA from NYU/Tisch School of the Arts
