Tom is the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, which was

nominated for nine awards and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the prestigious Crime Writers' Association's Gold Dagger Award. His previous works include the Edgar-winning story, Poachers, from the collection under the same title, as well as The Tilted World, which he co-authored with Beth Ann Fennelly, Hell at the Breech, and Smonk. Winner of a 2001 Guggenheim Fellowship, he teaches in the University of Mississippi's MFA program.