Tim Cresswell Author & Editor

Tim Cresswell was born in Cambridge in 1965 but didn't stay there long. Since then he has travelled, first as part of an Air Force family and then as a student and academic. As a geographer he is the author of five books on place, mobility and other key ideas in geographic thought. From 2006 to 2013 he was Professor of Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London, where he also completed a PhD in Creative Writing. He lives with his wife and three children in Boston where Tim is Professor of History and International Affairs at Northeastern University. Widely published in magazines, his first collection, Soil, was published in 2013 by Penned in the Margins.