Tim Tingle is an Oklahoma Choctaw and an award-winning author and storyteller. Tingle performs a Choctaw story before Chief Batton’s State of the Nation Address at every Choctaw Nation Labor Day Festival.

In June of 2011, Tingle spoke at the Library of Congress and performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. From 2011 to 2016, he was featured at Choctaw Days, a celebration at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian.

Tingle’s great-great grandfather, John Carnes, walked the Trail of Tears in 1835. In 1992, Tim retraced the Trail to Choctaw homelands in Mississippi, a journey that inspired his first book, Walking the Choctaw Road.

Tim’s first Pathfinders novel, Danny Blackgoat: Navajo Prisoner, was an American Indian Youth Literature Awards Honor Book in 2014. He has authored eight novels for the PathFinders collection.

In 2018, Tingle received the Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award from the Oklahoma Center for the Book. That same year, A Name Earned, the third book in his No Name series for young readers, earned a Kirkus Star review.

Tim resides in Canyon Lake, Texas.