Tim Bascom

Tim Bascom’s newest book, Climbing Lessons, is a collection of 40 brief personal narratives about fathers and sons in his own Midwestern clan. Bascom is also the author of a novel, a collection of essays, and two prize-winning memoirs: Running to the Fire (University of Iowa Press) and Chameleon Days (Houghton Mifflin). His fiction has appeared in Fiction Southeast, Mainstreet Rag, and Lalitamba. His essays have won prizes at The Missouri Review and Florida Review, being selected for the anthologies Best Creative Nonfiction and Best American Travel Writing. Bascom, who helped to develop the Creative Writing Program at Waldorf University, received his MFA degree from the University of Iowa.