Tim McCarthy

Tim McCarthy's fiction has appeared in a number of literary magazines and been widely anthologized, including an appearance in "The Best American Short Stories" series. McCarthy is also an award-winning journalist who covered a global beat for many years. He reported from places as far-flung as wartime El Salvador, Haiti, the Philippines, India, Central and Eastern Europe (1990) and the Balkans conflict (1993). "Bosnia Country" owes much to that dicey assignment in the Balkans. Retired from...See more

Tim McCarthy's fiction has appeared in a number of literary magazines and been widely anthologized, including an appearance in "The Best American Short Stories" series. McCarthy is also an award-winning journalist who covered a global beat for many years. He reported from places as far-flung as wartime El Salvador, Haiti, the Philippines, India, Central and Eastern Europe (1990) and the Balkans conflict (1993). "Bosnia Country" owes much to that dicey assignment in the Balkans. Retired from journalism now in his native New England, McCarthy is concentrating on his fiction. See less