O'Mara, Tim: - Tim O'Mara has been teaching math and special education in the New York City public schools since 1987. Sacrifice Fly, his first novel, introduces schoolteacher/ex-cop Raymond Donne and was nominated for the 2013 Best First Novel Barry Award. For the past 12 years, he has hosted and co-produced a bi-weekly reading series of poetry and prose in New York Citys East Village. He currently lives and teaches in Manhattan.