Tim Chapman is a former forensic scientist for the Chicago Police Department and writing instructor at Malcolm X College. He holds a Master’s degree in Creative Writing from Northwestern University. His fiction has been published in The Southeast Review, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, and the anthologies, The Rich and the Dead and Tales of the Fantastic. His short stories have been collected under the title Kiddieland and other misfortunes. He is the author of the Sean McKinney novels A Trace of Gold and The Blue Silence and two novels for middle-grade kids: The Outcasts and The Song of the Bees. When he’s not writing he’s editing the journal Litbop: Art and Literature in the Groove, teaching martial arts, or painting pretty pictures.

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