Tim Wohlforth, the writer
 
 
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Wohlforth has been a writer and journalist for over forty years. He lives with his wife and two dogs in Ashland, Oregon.
Non-FictionOn the Edge: Political Cults Right and Left
Wohlforth's most recent book, co-authored with Dennis Tourish, is On the Edge: Political Cults Right and Left. He also wrote his autobiography, The Prophet's Children: Travels on the American Left. He has authored several books on left political theory which are currently out of print. These are: 'Communists' Against Revolution: Two Essays on Postwar Stalinism and Teorias del Socialismo en el Siglo XX. Additionally Wohlforth has written articles for the New Left Review, In These Times, and Against the Current, and he wrote the section on Trotskyism in the Encyclopedia of the Left. Wohlforth is the subject of a Wikipedia entry.
 
Fiction
Tim Wohlforth’s California noir novel, No Time to Mourn wasNo Time to Mourn, by Tim Wohlforth, was published in 2003 published by Quiet Storm Press. He has had seventy-five short stories published. His story “The Masseuse” was chosen for inclusion in MWA's Death Do Us Part, edited by Harlan Coben. Recently it was short-listed by Otto Penzler in his 2007 Best American Mystery Stories. This is the second time Penzler has selected a story by Tim Wohlforth for that honor. Dennis McMillan has published a Crip and Henrietta story as part of his Plots With Guns anthology. He has also appeared in Techno-Noir, Short Attention Span Mysteries and Never Safe anthologies.

Wohlforth is a Pushcart Prize Nominee and has received a Certificate of Excellence from the Dana Literary Society. His stories have appeared in Futures Magazine, Detective Mystery Magazine, Crimestalker Casebook, Storyteller, Orchard Press, Hand Held Crime, Plots With Guns, Mysterical-e, Hardluck Stories, Without A Clue, SDO Detective, StoryOne, Dana On Line, CyberPulp, Thrilling Detective, Mindfire, Shred of Evidence (2004 Readers Choice Winner), Crimson Dagger, ThugLit, Echelon, Fictionwise, Sony Downloads, Sniplit, Web Mystery Magazine, Writers Hood, Flashing In The Gutters, Demolition, and Mouthful of Bullets.

He has moderated panels and participated as a panelist at Left Coast Crimes in Portland, Monterey, Pasadena, and Seattle as well as at Bouchercon in Washington DC, Las Vegas, and Anchorage.
 


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