Since 1994, Timothy Travaglini has worked in trade marketing for Scholastic, Inc.; been a bookseller for Books of Wonder, an all-children’s bookstore in New York City; and has edited for Henry Holt and Company, Walker & Company, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group, and Open Road Integrated Media where he was the director of children's acquisitions. 

He is the editor of the Theodor Seuss Geisel Award winner, UP! TALL! AND HIGH! by Ethan Long; New York Times #1 bestseller GOODNIGHT GOON, and New York Times bestseller THE RUNAWAY MUMMY, by Michael Rex; the FANGBONE: THIRD GRADE BARBARIAN series by Michael Rex (now an animated series!); The Youngest Templar trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Michael P. Spradlin; DREAMDARK: BLACKBRINGER and DREAMDARK: SILKSINGER by National Book Award finalist Laini Taylor; Washington Post Best Children’s Book of the Year FLYGIRL by Sherri L. Smith; The Foundling’s Tale trilogy (originally titled Monster Blood Tattoo) by D. M. Cornish; the BENJAMIN FRANKLINSTEIN series by Matthew McElligott & Larry Tuxbury; many picture books by Patrick O’Brien such as YOU ARE THE FIRST KID ON MARS and CAPTAIN RAPTOR AND THE MOON MYSTERY; EARTH MOTHER by Ellen Jackson, illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon; ONE WITCH by Laura Leuck, illustrated by S. D. Schindler; many novels by Janette Rallison such as JUST ONE WISH, and ALL’S FAIR IN LOVE, WAR, AND HIGH SCHOOL; the reissue of Newbery-Honor winner ENCHANTRESS FROM THE STARS by Sylvia Louise Engdahl; and UNCLE BOBBY'S WEDDING by Sarah S. Brannen.

He is also the editor of EVANGELLYFISH, by Douglas Wilson, winner of the 2013 Christianity Today Book Award for Fiction.

Timothy is a veteran of more than 55 trade shows, including ALA Mid-winter & Annual, IRA(now ILA), NCTE, BEA, TLA, NCSS, Bologna Children's Book Fair, NYCC & SDCC; and lectured at more than 45 SCBWI conferences, regional writers conferences, and universities.  He has been a Visiting International Publisher for Adelaide Writers Week (Australia), and the New Zealand Post Writers and Readers Week (Wellington, NZ); and has appeared on NPR, C-SPAN, and in numerous magazine & online interviews.