Speaker

Tim Bascom’s newest book—The Boundless Game: Soccer Stories from Across the Street to Around the World (University Press of Kansas, 2026)—celebrates ways that soccer transcends cultural and national borders. Bascom, who received his MFA from the University of Iowa, is also author of a novel, a collection of short fiction, two collections of essays, and two prize-winning memoirs about years spent in East Africa as a youth: Chameleon Days and Running to the Fire.  He is a former college creative writing professor and director of the annual Kansas Book Festival.