Imaginarium 2020 is proud to welcome Bram Stoker Award-winning author and renowned creative writing instructor Tim Waggoner as a Spotlighted Guest! With over 40 novels and five collections spanning numerous genres and including several tie-ins for popular franchises as Supernatural, The X-Files, Doctor Who and many others, Tim has an extensive and growing body of work that reflects his exceptional skill sets as a writer. We are thrilled to have Tim with us for our 7th year, and attendees of Imaginarium 2020 are going to love meeting and him!

About Tim Waggoner: Tim Waggoner’s first novel came out in 2001, and since then he’s published over forty novels and five collections of short stories. He writes original dark fantasy and horror, as well as media tie-ins. His novels include Like Death, considered a modern classic in the genre, and the popular Nekropolis series of urban fantasy novels. He’s written tie-in fiction based on Supernatural, Grimm, The X-Files, Alien, Doctor Who, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Transformers, among others, and he’s written novelizations for films such as Kingsman: the Golden Circle and Resident Evil: the Final Chapter.

His articles on writing have appeared in Writer’s Digest, Writer’s Journal, Writer’s Workshop of Horror, Horror 101, and Where Nightmares Come From. In 2017 he received the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction, and he’s been a finalist multiple times for both the Shirley Jackson Award and the Scribe Award. His fiction has received numerous Honorable Mentions in volumes of Best Horror of the Year, and he’s had several stories selected for inclusion in volumes of Year’s Best Hardcore Horror. In addition to writing, he’s also a full-time tenured professor who teaches creative writing and composition at Sinclair College in Dayton, Ohio.