Tim Amsden's work has appeared in Pudding Magazine, Poetry Ireland Review, Potpourri, Sin Fronteras, Out of Line, Rockhurst Review, Arabesques Review, Contemporary Verse 2, Istanbul Literature Review, The Newer York, a Pima Press poetry anthology titled Lasting: Poems on Aging, and elsewhere. He grew up in Wichita, Kansas; worked for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for 25 years; and with his wife, Lucia, now lives in New Mexico, where they both indulge their compulsions to write.