Thomas Ford Conlan lives, writes, and tends his modest grapevines on a small farm in the highlands of Northern Michigan. Before settling down, he sailed the world’s oceans from the Bering Sea and North Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic and on to warm Caribbean currents. Tom has travelled extensively though the American west. He finally settled down near the Great freshwater Seas. Tom takes pleasure in poetry, minding his grapevines, and the search for the elusive brook trout in backwater streams.

Tom’s prose and poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals, including Walloon Writers Review, Tulip Tree Review, QU Literary Review, UPReader, and Michigan Trout Magazine. Tom was a finalist for awards in the Bellingham Review, the Northwind Treasury, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Tom writes a weekly column for the Charlevoix County News – Reader’s Corner.

Tom has published three full length books:

Secret Conversations – A visual Poetry Collection (2025)

Gentle Spirits – a lyrical Novel (2023)

My Journey Begins Where the Road Ends… Tom’s lyrical memoir (2017)

For signed copies or to learn more, Visit:      www.thomasfordconlan.com

Tom attended the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Queens University of Charlotte and a Master of Science from the US Naval Postgraduate School in Monterrey, California.