Then, after a six-year stint in a small town in Kansas, we returned right at the height of the Marxist revolution, a period dubbed “The Red Terror.” Due to rising violence and danger, we had to leave after eight months, living in Kenya and Sudan.
For five years Dad served as a doctor at clinics in rural southern Ethiopia. My parents took me to Ethiopia when they decided to become missionaries with the Sudan Interior Mission.
I started traveling early-at the age of three. His fiction-often about travelers going into and out of Africa-has appeared in Zone 3, Mainstreet Rag, Lalitamba, and Briar Cliff Review. His essays have won editor’s prizes at The Missouri Review and Florida Review, and have also been selected for the anthologies Best Creative Nonfiction and Best American Travel Writing.
Tim Bascom is author of a novel set in the Philippines, 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.
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