Presenting Tim Kim

As some of you know, our beloved Office Captain Tupelo is leaving us at the end of September. While we hate to see her go, we can't begrudge her for going on to exciting things—namely preparation for her novel girlchild, which will be published in January. Last week our new Office Captain arrived, and has been training up to fill Tupe's shoes. If I may, I would like to present Tim Kim.

Tim grew up as a chatty child with a strangely deep voice in an Orange-County-esque southern California town. He says "it was before The O.C. though, so you know, no one knew it was hip." Tim moved to Northern California when he was 13, only to head back down south for a Lit Writing degree at UC San Diego.

After graduating, Tim loftily ventured to Los Angeles to pursue screenwriting, and spent some time as the assistant to a studio executive. This is when he honed his excellent dry-cleaning-retrieval and deck-building skills. For a short time he also worked at a private school as a chaperone for David Beckham's children. (Yes, really.) Tim finally got back into the writing world, and the Bay Area, with jobs at San Francisco Magazine and Wired.Though Tim has attempted NaNoWriMo four times, he has yet to succeed. He's hoping to break that streak this year, and says it's his "badge of shame, [his] scarlet letter." When asked why he returned to OLL (having been an intern in 2009) he honestly just wouldn't stop talking! "This is just such an amazing community, and a huge international community, all working together toward the same goal," he says. Tim is inspired and awed by the passion he finds in NaNoWriMo participants, and he loves interacting with them.

As Office Captain, Tim will be answering tons of questions and emails, and looking after day-to-day things around the office (like the washing of dishes, and making sure our plants don't die). He likes to style himself as an "OLL guru," with a breadth of knowledge encompassing all our programs.

When he's not here, Tim works as the managing editor for Once Magazine, a photojournalism-focused publication for the iPad. This helps him to stay involved in the changing world of journalism, and to be part of where print media is going in the future.

We're happy to have someone as competent and personable as Tim to take over for Tupe, and we hope you will give him a great OLL-community welcome. (Please note that while welcome cards are accepted, we try to discourage the mailing of live animals or perishable food items.)

– Paige