About
Born in Billings, Montana, Tim O’Leary is the author of Warriors, Workers, Whiners, & Weasels, Dick Cheney Shot Me in the Face, Men Behaving Badly, and, forthcoming, The Corona Verses, to be released in 2024. He graduated from the University of Montana and received his MFA from Pacific University. Tim and his wife Michelle and their yellow lab Pinchot split their time between the Columbia Gorge in Washington state, and Santa Ynez, California.
SELECT LITERARY AWARDS & RECOGNITION
- 2016 & 2017 Pushcart Nominee
- Finalist – 2015 Mark Twain Royal Nonesuch Award for Humor Writing – Dick Cheney Shot Me in the Face
- Finalist – 2016 Subito Prize for Prose
- Finalist – 2017 Lascaux Prize in Fiction
- Red List Top Western of the Year – 2022
- Finalist – Screencraft Cinematic Short Story Contest – 2022
- Red List Top Western of the Year – 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 2022
- Semifinalist – Screencraft Cinematic Short Story Contest – 2017, 2018, 2019
- Finalist for the Nivalis Short Story Award – “One Star”
- Finalist for the Washington Square Prize for Fiction – “Impala”
- Finalist for the 2015 Mississippi Review Fiction Prize – “Fake Girlfriend”
- Finalist for The New Millennium Writing Award – “Fake Girlfriend”
- Winner of the 2015 Aestas Award – “First Kill”