Tim Kreider is the author of the essay collections We Learn Nothing and I Wrote This Book Because I Love You. He currently has a regular column at Medium, and has contributed to The New York Times, The New Yorker‘s “Page-Turner” blog, al Jazeera, Vox, Nerve, the Men’s Journal, The Comics Journal, Film Quarterly, and Fangoria. His cartoons have been collected in three books by Fantagraphics Books. His cartoon, “The Pain—When Will It End?” ran for twelve years in the Baltimore City Paper and other alternative weeklies, and is archived at the paincomics.com.

Tim was born and educated in Baltimore, Maryland. He lives in New York City and an Undisclosed Location on the Chesapeake Bay. His cat died in 2013.