2026
"Missionaries Show Me and My Mother How to Pray" - Psaltery & Lyre, Scholastic National Gallery, The WIT (print)
"Calamities: An Immigrant Documentary" - The WIT (print)
"Abecedarian Appeal" - Randall Albers Young Writers Award Anthology
"Exorcising Physicality" - Eunoia Review (forthcoming)2025
"wish you were buried" - The WIT (print)
"Language in Superposition" - The WIT (print)
"What We Carry" - National Poetry Quarterly (print)2023
“Eight Steps to Disappear" - The Battering Ram
"CLEAR HISTORY" - The Battering Ram
"A Moment to Regret" - Teen Ink

EDITING
- Rivener Literary Founder and EIC (2025-Present)
- STEMScribe Founder and EIC (2024-Present)
- JADE&COMPASS Editor (2025-Present)
- The Incandescent Review Editor (2025)
- The WIT Editor (2024-Present)PROGRAMS
- Iowa Young Writer's Studio Poetry Course (instructed by Hannah Bonner)
- Ellipsis Poetry and Creative Nonfiction Writing Studios (instructed by Sara Elkamel and Richie Hofmann)
- Fir Acres Writing Workshop at Lewis & Clark College (2026)
- SUNHOUSE Summer Mentorship Program (2026)
- Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship Program (2026) (mentored by Rob Macaisa Colgate)CLUBS
- Audition-selected member of the Spoken Word Team, performed at Rooted&Radical
- School literary magazine editor (The WIT)

INTERESTS: Mathematical modeling, astrophysical computing, machine learningRESEARCH AWARDS
- Illinois Junior Academy of Science (IJAS) State Science Fair Paper Winner
- IJAS State 2x Best in Category; Top Paper Award; 5x Gold; Regional 2x Top Paper, 1x Perfect Paper, 3x Best in Category
- ISEF Semifinalist (Top 20); Illinois State Academy of Science (ISAS) Conference Nomination; Top Two Papers in RegionPROJECTS
1. A Comparative Machine Learning Approach to Predict Habitability of Confirmed Exoplanets (2023-2024)
-> Earned Science Fair Regional and State-Wide Gold, Best in Category, and Top Paper; ISAS Nomination
2. Deep Learning for Compact Binary Merger Prediction via Simulated Gravitational Waves (2024-2025)
-> Earned Science Fair Regional and State-Wide Gold and Best in Category
3. Exploring the Effects of Oxidative Stress on Sulfur Compound Metabolism and Biosynthesis in the Liver (2025)
-> NASA Genelab for High Schools Capstone Program, presented at the 2025 American Society for Gravitational and Space Research Conference
4. Investigating the Effect of Galaxy Merger Ratio and History on Intracluster Gas Turbulence Using IllustrisTNG Simulations (2025-2026)
-> Earned ISEF Semifinalist
5. Reducing Bias in Chicago Predictive Policing Algorithms (2026)
-> Competed in Math Modeling the Future Challenge
6. To Gamble or Not to Gamble? That Is the Question (2026)
-> Competed in the MathWorks Math Modeling ChallengeWant to view the papers or posters? Email me anytime for details about these projects or potential collaborations!COMPETITIONS
- AIME Qualification with Distinction, AMC 10 Achievement Roll
- Drake Physics Prize Top 25
- International Astronomy and Astrophysics Competition Bronze MedalPROGRAMS
- Fermilab Saturday Morning Physics (2023-2024)
- Physics of Atomic Nuclei Program at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) (2026)
- Volunteer research with physics Professor Carlo Segre at the Illinois Institute of Technology (2026)FUN STUFF
- I publish physics tutorials (mainly focusing on AP Physics C) on the Youtube channel "Physics Yaps."
- I have taught a "research skills" class to middle schoolers in Fenghua Academy for the past three years!

- National YoungArts Poetry Winner
- Chicago Literary Hall of Fame Randall Albers Award Poetry First Place Winner
- 2x Scholastic Art & Writing National Silver Medalist; American Voices Nominee
- 11x Scholastic Gold Key; 10x Silver Key; 8x Honorable Mention
- National High School Poetry Contest Winner
- Garden Party Collective Chapbook Contest Finalist
- Adelphi University High School Poetry Contest Finalist
- DePaul's Blue Book: Best American High School Writing Finalist
- Illinois Junior Academy of Science (IJAS) State Science Fair Paper Winner; Regional 2x Top Paper, Perfect Paper; Illinois State Academy of Science (ISAS) Conference Nominee (Top Two in Region)Praise for "Abecedarian Appeal":
This powerful poem uses the form of the “Abecedarian,” a type of acrostic in which each line or stanza begins with successive letters of the alphabet, from A to Z, while also using found language to reflect on motherhood, the female body, and the legislation that fights to rule over it. The poem is both a personally artful and exacting proclamation of being and the right to be, as well as a mirror held up to our troubled society, reflecting the warps in leadership that continue to do battle with the female body. The word “appeal” in the title, then, works as an actual appeal and a somewhat fractured legal appeal to some “higher court,” be that to God, the government, or to society itself, from which the speaker seeks some sort of comfort, however doubt-ridden (the speaker clearly acknowledges) as that request and belief in said “supreme” court may be.
– Timothy David Rey is an award-winning teaching artist and author. His work has been presented at the Poetry Foundation, Steppenwolf Theater Lookout Series, and for decades around Chicago and elsewhere. His poetry appears in RHINO, Sixty Inches from Center, Obsidian, New City Magazine, After Hours Journal of Writing and Art, etc.