Tim Cummings is the author of the coming-of-age novel, Alice the Cat, published by Fitzroy Books. It was chosen as an American Book Awards 'Best Book' Finalist for 2023, received a Bronze Medal in the 2024 Feathered Quill Book Awards, and is a Finalist in both the 2024 National Indies Excellence Awards for Teen Fiction and the Independent Author Network's Book of the Year Awards. His follow-up novel, The Lightning People Play, was published by Black Rose Writing in June of 2025.

He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles and a BFA from NYU/Tisch School of the Arts. He has appeared in over 200 projects across theatre, film, television, voice-over, and new media. Recent publications of short fiction, essays, and poetry include F(r)iction, Scare Street, Lunch Ticket, MeowMeow PowPow, From Whispers to Roars, Drunk Monkeys, Hare's Paw, Lit Angels, and Critical Read/RAFT, for which he won the ‘Origins’ contest for his essay, "You Have Changed Me Forever."

In addition to his passion for storytelling, Tim is also an enthusiast of octopuses and spiders. He goes wild for anything with eight legs. If you have any questions about spiders or octopuses, ask. He recently discovered he is a masterful hula hooper and can whirl nonstop for eons. Tim also possesses enviable collections of stickers, labradorite, night-sky projector lights, vintage vinyl, and rare first-edition hardcover copies of some of his favorite novels. He has a karaoke machine, too. The Language of Birthdays cites his date of birth, January 15th, as 'The Day of Heroic Inevitability,' and this tracks because he shares the day with Moliere, Joan of Arc, Martin Luther King, Jr., Captain Beefheart, and Charo. Lastly, no one has ever made a better vat of chili, and his lasagna is infallible.

He teaches writing for UCLA Extension Writers' Program, The Townies Inc in Ojai, runs private workshops, coaches authors, and does manuscript consulting.