Memphis Vaughan, Jr., a Mobile, Alabama native, is an avid reader, writer, traveler, and computer buff. As editor and webmaster, he created the TimBookTu web site as a place to showcase African-American writing and poetry in 1996. Since then, the site has featured the works of over 2,500 writers, poets, and essayists. In 2002, he edited an anthology of works from TimBookTu writers entitled Journey To TimBookTu: An African-American Poetic Odyssey. He has also had short stories that appeared in Zane's Chocolate Flava and Succulent - Chocolate Flava II. He is currently working on his own collection of short stories.

He can be contacted at mempv@timbooktu.com to receive comments, questions, answers, criticism and especially praise.