Tim Thornton is a writer, journalist, and teacher with experience at mainstream and alternative newspapers and magazines, on public radio and online. Thornton has won national awards for column writing and environmental reporting, the Phillip D. Reed Memorial Award for Outstanding Writing on the Southern Environment, the Virginia Press Association’s D. Lathan Mims Award for “editorial leadership and service to the community,” a score of state press association awards, and a small stack of ribbons for his dulcimer playing.

Lately, he’s been teaching English composition and Appalachian literature while working on long form radio documentaries and one short film.