Tim Pilgrim is an associate professor of journalism at Western Washington University. He calls on much of his UW learning from professors such as Bill Ames, Don Pember, Roger Simpson, Gerald Baldasty, Tony Giffard, Richard Carter, and Richard Kielbowicz to teach the department’s introduction to mass media course, which is a popular university general education class at Western.

Pilgrim also teaches editing and, on occasion, press law, ethics, and news writing. He is the author of a number of articles (historical and legal), along with two books: “Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained: Newspaper Preservation and the Seattle Joint Operating Agreement” (Ablex, 1997) and with co-author and UW graduate Carolyn Dale, “Fearless Editing: Crafting Words and Images for Print, Web and Public Relations” (Pearson/Allyn and Bacon, 2005).

Pilgrim is also a Pacific Northwest poet, with over 60 poems in literary journals, on poetry Web sites and in anthologies. His latest poems, “No design on the sky” and “Doing crank” in SQAJET, the Skagit Valley College literary magazine and “Still the only bar in Dixon, Montana” (for Richard Hugo) and “Pawnshop” in Jeopardy, a Western Washington University literary magazine, appeared in 2005.

His poem, “Hear no evil” (about atrocities in the South Pacific during World War II), is featured in “Weathered pages”, an anthology of poems published by Blue Begonia Press and released at the Bumpershoot Bookfair in 2005. Pilgrim’s poems can be seen here.