Tom 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 in Alaska to the warm Caribbean currents and the five Great freshwater Lakes, and travelled extensively though the American west. Tom now takes pleasure in poetry, minding 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, The Avocet, Outlaw Poetry, the Anthology – The Water Holds No Scars, and in Michigan Trout Magazine. His work was chosen as a finalist for the Annie Dillard Prize in the Bellingham Review.

His lyrical memoir My Journey Begins Where the Road Ends… was released in June 2017 (Mission Point Press, Amazon.)

Gentle Spirits, a literary novel, was released in May 2023 by Legacy Book Press.

Tom is currently working on a visual poetry collection that he hopes to publish in 2024.

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.