Timothy David Rey

Timothy David Rey (he/him) is a poet, playwright, and performer. His original solo performances, monologues, poems, and plays have been produced in Chicago, Texas, and Panama (translated into Spanish). He is the author of Zip!, which was a semi-finalist for the 2023 Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference; The Monologue Play, which was a 2021/2022 Changing Worlds/Arts Work Fund Grant recipient; and other works. Rey’s poetry and performance pieces have been published in Obsidian: Literature of the African Diaspora, Black Horse Review, Emerge: 2022 LAMBDA Fellows Anthology, and elsewhere. His book of poetry and performance, Little Victories, was published in 2011 by NewTown Writers Press, an LGBTQ+ imprint.

Chicago poet David Hernandez wrote of Rey’s work for the jacket of Little Victories as

clearly concise and hits the senses like a velvet sledge hammer. This poet is a talented and gifted writer who paints with words, portraits in the mind that will always be remembered because you want them to be with you forever.