Tim Bryant lives in Nacogdoches, Texas. He has written four Dutch Curridge Mysteries (Dutch Curridge, Southern Select, Spirit Trap, and Old Mother Curridge), coming to Speaking Volumes Publishing in 2020, as well as the Wilkie John Westerns (A World Of Hurt, Dead And Buried) for Kensington. Tim was named one of the Top Five Texas Authors of 2014 by BookPeople in Austin, Texas for Spirit Trap, for which author Stephen Graham Jones said, "I'd put Tim Bryant up against anybody writing mysteries today." In his spare time, Tim runs an independent bookstore called The Bosslight and writes and records music under the name Elephant Verses Train.