The Authors of Tumbleweed Books
Kelly Simmerman
Meet Kelly Simmerman, a passionate bookworm turned prolific writer, whose literary journey began in a quaint independent bookstore in Santa Fe, NM. Kelly's love for reading evolved into a flourishing writing career, marked by over 100 articles in various magazines,...
Ronald Schulz
RONALD SCHULZ was born in the nineteen-fifties in Chicago. He dropped out to explore the Sixties radical counterculture before hitchhiking across Europe and Africa on a roundabout Buddhist pilgrimage to Nepal. Now a semi-retired hobo, and a new author writing his...
Thomas Cannon
Thomas Cannon was raised on a small dairy farm near Spencer, Wisconsin. While drawn to the honest work of farming, he followed a passion for writing and graduated with a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Wisconsin- Stevens Point. In August 2021, he...
Michael Saad
Michael Saad was born in Michel, British Columbia and grew up in Sparwood, B.C. He is currently a teacher at Coalhurst High School in Coalhurst, Alberta. He is the author of several short stories and historical articles. His writing has appeared in numerous magazines...
Emilio Iasiello
Emilio Iasiello is the author of the short story collection Why People Do What They Do, and a nonfiction book, Chasing the Green. He has published poetry in several university and literary journals and written the screenplays for several independent feature films and...
Kevin Del Principe
KEVIN DEL PRINCIPE is a writer and film director. I Animal, via Tumbleweed Books, is Del Principe's first novel. The son of a snowplow truck driver and a school nurse, Kevin grew up outside of Buffalo, New York. Later, he worked in Los Angeles and taught screenwriting...
Johan Thompson
Johan Thompson is a writer by night and manages a law firm by day. He lives with his wife, two boys and two dogs in Johannesburg, South Africa. After studying creative writing, screenwriting and watching every science fiction film created, he decided to draw on his...
Melisa Grunow
Melissa's essays have been nominated for the 2017 Best of the Net Anthology and the 2014 Pushcart Prize. Her work has been listed as a notable essay in The Best American Essays in 2016, 2018 and 2019. She is a four-time recipient of the Detroit Working Writers...
Cameron Miller
Cameron Miller has been writing professionally for decades as a preacher, pastor, retreat and conference leader, and an adjunct professor of religion. Recently he traded that work to dance full time along the imaginative border between fiction, poetry, and spiritual...
S.A. Baker
S.A. Baker is a healthcare worker and recovering professional musician who spent eleven years touring around North America and despite popular opinion, he really does know how to smile. From early on, he excelled at telling stories and won several local writing awards...
Douglas Owen
Writer, author, editor, and publisher. Douglas Owen started his writing career in the late '80s with training manuals. After several years and a number of "internally" published works, he turned his eye to creative writing early in 2o12. Doug's specializes in Science...