Tim Bovee (pronounced BOH-vee) was an editor and project manager with the Washington, D.C., bureau of a global news agency, the Associated Press. He was born in 1946 in Shawnee, Oklahoma.

He got his first job a journalist in 1965, as a newsman at a small radio station, KNOR, in Norman, Oklahoma. After military service in Vietnam and Turkey, in the 1970s he worked as English editor of The East magazine in Tokyo. In 1979 he entered newspaper journalism with the Clinton Daily News in Clinton, Oklahoma, and in 1980 joined the AP in Oklahoma City, He was the AP's Michigan business writer in Detroit from 1984 and since 1987 has worked in the Washington Bureau, handling the 1990 census, elections, technical projects and investigative reporting.

Bovee was among the early experimenters in periodical publishing on the World Wide Web, well before Slate and Salon entered the field. In 1995 he started WebRunner magazine, a monthly collection of essays on political and social issues.

In 2001, he began DayPoems, a large repository of poetry past and present, as an ambivalent way of higlighting, while hiding, his own accomplishments as a poet.

Bovee is a former member of the Federal Club of the Human Rights Campaign, the largest American gay rights lobbying group, the Leadership Council of the National Gay and Lesbian Task force, and Equality Virginia.

Bovee's langugage skills cover the usual suspects: A smattering of French and Spanish, a phrase or two in Chinese and Turkish, a fair degree of fluency in Japanese, aspirations toward Lojban, as well as Perl, Pascal, Delphi, VBScript, JavaScript and plain-vanilla BASIC.

After retirement, Bovee resided in Portland, Oregon, where he analyzed and traded options and stocks using Elliott Wave Theory as his methodology.