Tim Weed is the author of three books of fiction. His work has won multiple Writer's Digest annual fiction awards and has been shortlisted for the Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction, the Fish International Short Story Award, the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Award for a Novel-in-Progress, the Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards, the New Rivers Many Voices Project and many others. His essays and articles have appeared in Literary Hub, The Millions, The Writer's Chronicle, Talking Points Memo and elsewhere. Weed is the co-founder of the Cuba Writers Program and spent the first part of his career directing international educational programs in Spain, Portugal, Australia, Iceland, throughout Latin America and in many other locations around the globe. He holds a B.A. in Spanish from Middlebury College, a master's degree in international affairs from the University of California and an MFA in creative writing from Warren Wilson College. His new novel, "The Afterlife Project," finalist for the Prism Prize in Climate Literature, will be released in print, audiobook and e-book in 2025.