Bio:     about Timothy Martin Flanagan  
   
                Mailing Address:  Box 22 / Lake Oswego, Oregon / Zip Code:  97034-0003
                Telephone  503-697-1670 / e-mail:  editor@writingresource.org
                web page:  Writingresource.info  /  blog:  writingresource.blogspot.com/
                Indesign portfolio:  http://www.WritingResource.info/indesign

       Tim is a writer, editor, professor, tutor, organizer, activist, and curriculum developer. 
He has a passion for reading, literacy, and creative arts. Tim edits, writes, teaches, publishes,
and tutors. Tim is on the steering committee for Portland Jobs with Justice, co-hosts Fifth
Monday Labor Radio on KBOO 90.7 FM, and is Associate Editor and Editorial Consultant
for The Portland Alliance, a vehicle for NAAME, a 501C3 Oregon nonprofit.
        He lives in Beaverton, Oregon, has a home in Missoula, Montana, and was born in St. Louis Missouri.
       In Missouri, Tim attended high school and some college, spending his leisure time close to the
Missouri river and the bottomlands. 
       In California he worked in the material handling industry, eventually forming his own company,
Martin Installation.  Tim relaxed by playing golf, playing cribbage, and riding a motorcycle. For a time
Tim kept a large garden and raised chickens.
        Timothy eventualy sold the firm and moved to Arizona to complete his education. He studied
at the University of Northern Arizona and worked for the Arizona Daily Sun. A large portion
of his leisure time was spent fly-fishing, gardening, raising chickens, hiking, camping, and boating. 
       After graduating from Northern Arizona University, Timothy moved to Missoula, Montana. In
Missoula he worked as a tutor, published online, gave seminars on writing at the University of
Montana, did substitute teaching, and did specialized research and acted as librarian under the auspices
of The International Peace Resource Center.  Tim published an independent magazine for writing and
the creative arts called The Wordsmith Collection. In his spare time in Montana, Tim hiked, rode a
motorcycle, fished, played golf, took pictures, tended gardens, raised chickens, played cribbage,
and did a lot canoeing.  
      After moving to Oregon, Mr. Flanagan taught college, attended the University of Oregon at Eugene,
tutored, edited books, worked as a union organizer, and edited The Gathering before taking his
current position with The Portland Alliance.  When relaxing, Tim reads, writes, cooks, gardens,
plays chess, and works for progressive social change. 
      Tim hopes to do more fly-fishing, golfing, and camping. He has also lived in Colorado, Massachusetts,
and Ohio... and has travled extensively in North America, Mexico, Canada, and British Columbia.
For parts of ten years he did interactive research by traveling with a carnival in a number of states.
Timothy plans to do some writing, travel, and research in Europe.

His resume can be accessed here:           http://www.Writingresource.info/resume
And here is an alternate picture...          http://www.Writingresource.info/tim