Tim Thornton is a writer, journalist and teacher who's worked at mainstream and alternative newspapers as well as for magazines, online media and public radio. He's 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 few ribbons for playing a dulcimer.