Tim Becker (he, they) is a musician, writer, visual artist, scholar, and Advanced Instructor of First-Year Writing in the University Writing Program at Virginia Tech. He is a 2019 graduate of the M.A. English program in Rhetoric & Composition at NCSU and holds a B.A. from UNC Chapel Hill, where he double majored in Philosophy and English and minored in History.
His scholarly work centers on writing theory and pedagogy, epistemology, and digital rhetorics, appearing in Composition Forum (2023), Composition Studies (2024), and Textshop Experiments (forthcoming). He has presented at Corridors: The Blue Ridge Rhetoric and Writing Conference and the Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy. His educational materials and visual art have been used in outreach materials for the North Carolina Language and Life Project and in teaching resources for Pathways: General Education at Virginia Tech. He served as project manager and curriculum designer for the university grant-funded educational site, Learning Sessions: Writing, Research, & Digital Literacy.
In his artistic endeavors, he has written and produced five music albums: The Plaid Album (2017), Galapagos (2018), Treeshadows (2019, Jan.), Moss (2019, Jul.), and Tectonics (2023). He was shortlisted for the North Carolina State Poetry Contest (2019) guest judged by Ada Limón and has published several collections of poetry, including Silent Film Villains (2010) New York City Bones (2011), Sorrow Birds (2012), and The Planetarium (2013). His comics include Tommy the Tornado (2023–2026), Pupil & Iris: Eyes Only Comics (2025–2026), and Skate Rat (2026), the latter of which is published on Patreon, WebToon, Tapas, and in paperback (forthcoming).
His poetry and short fiction appear in And/Both Magazine (2017; 2018; 2019), Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature (2024), and Appalachia Bare (2025), while his interviews and essays have been featured in And/Both Magazine (2018), Stories from the Field (2018), Entropy (2019), Hokies Write (2019), and Academic Packways (2020).
