Tim Van Schmidt is an American writer and photographer based in Fort Collins, Colorado. In more than 30 years of reporting on the Rocky Mountain regional music scene in print and online, Schmidt has covered some of the most exciting acts of our times- photographing shows, interviewing artists and reviewing everything. But more, his close association with area bands made him the director of a music festival, his association with the public radio movement made him into a radio voice and his longtime quest to rock and roll made him into an author. He is also a recording artist, a poet and co-founded a performing group that toured extensively throughout the Rocky Mountain region and beyond.