Tim Gilmer

As New Mobility's editor, Tim Gilmer managed the magazine's editorial content, working closely with staff and freelance writers for 17 years. He was responsible for editing all features and departments and wrote a monthly column, Bully Pulpit. He has written more than 100 articles for NM, having profiled Christopher Reeve, Joni Eareckson Tada, Teddy Pendergrass and John Callahan. Prior to becoming editor in 2000, he taught writing classes and was a freelance writer. In 1995 he was awarded an Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship. In addition to NM, his work has appeared in The Oregonian, Writers Forum, Weber Studies and AlterNet ("Ron Kovic Reborn"). A wheelchair user since 1965, he currently writes from his home, a working organic vegetable farm outside Portland, where he lives with his wife, daughter, son-in-law and four grandsons.