Tim Schell has published short stories and essays in magazines and literary journals and he co-founded and edited the Clackamas Literary Review at Clackamas Community College where he taught for seven years before moving to Albuquerque where he taught creative writing at the University of New Mexico. Tim is the co-author of Mooring Against the Tide: Writing Fiction and Poetry (Prentice Hall, 2006) and the co-editor of A Writer's Country (Prentice Hall, 2001). His fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Award, and in 1994 he was the winner of the Martindale Award for Long Fiction. He was the