Though born on a U.S. Air Force base in South Carolina, Tim Hull was brought to Arizona when he was just six months old and has since left only rarely. He grew up in Prescott, a small town in the state's north-central pinelands, where his mother's family has lived since the 1870s. He graduated from Arizona State University and has traveled extensively throughout the Southwest and Mexico.

Currently, Tim is a freelance writer based in Tucson, Arizona. He has been a staff writer and editor for the Green Valley News in Southern Arizona's Santa Cruz Valley and Inside Tucson Business. He has also written for Tucson Weekly, Tucson Green Magazine, and various other publications and websites. His fiction has been published in Santa Monica Review, Blue Mesa Review, and other arts journals. Tim keeps an intermittent blog at www.arizonaroamer.com.