Tim Weed is the author of a story collection, A Field Guide to Murder & Fly Fishing, and a novel, Will Poole’s Island. His writing has appeared in Literary Hub, The Millions, The Writer’s Chronicle, Talking Points Memo, and elsewhere, and has won awards or been shortlisted in the Writer's Digest Fiction Awards, the Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction, the Fish International Short Story Award, the Montana Prize in Fiction, and many others. Tim is the co-founder of the Cuba Writers Program and teaches at Grub Street and in the Newport MFA in Creative Writing. His new novel, The Afterlife Project, a finalist for the Prism Prize in Climate Literature, will be published by Podium in early 2025.