Tim DeRoche is the bestselling author of The Ballad of Huck & Miguel, a modern-day retelling of Huck Finn set on the Los Angeles River, which was featured on CBS Sunday Morning, NPR, the LA Review of Books, and the Mark Twain Forum.  It was also selected by the Pasadena Public Library as the “One City, One Story” book for the Summer of 2019.

He also wrote A Fine Line, which was featured in the Washington Post and which launched the national watchdog Available to All.  His third book, Tales of Whimsy, Verses of Woe, is a collection of nonsense poetry that received starred reviews from Kirkus and the American Library Association (ALA).  He has written for TIME, USA Today, The Free Press, Unherd, and Literary Hub.

Tim lives with his wife Simone and four young kids in the Foothills of Los Angeles.