Timothy E. G. Bartel

Timothy E. G. Bartel is a poet and literary scholar. He was born and raised in California and many of his poems are directly concerned with the significance of his home state. He holds an MFA in Poetry and a PhD in Theology and the Arts. His books of poems include Roots and Fruit: An Introduction to the Christian Faith (2026), A Crown for Abba Moses: New and Selected Poems (2023), Calafia: An Adventure (2020), Aflame but Unconsumed: Poems (2019), The Martyr, The Grizzly, The Gold: Poems (2012), and Arroyos: Sijo and Other Poems (2015), which was named a Book of 2015 by the Scottish Poetry Library. He is also the author of two studies of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poetry: The Heroines of Henry Longfellow: Domestic, Defiant, Divine (2022), and Glimpses of Her Father's Glory: Deification and Divine Light in Longfellow's Evangeline (2019). Timothy lives and teaches writing in Houston.