About
Army Veteran, Returned Peace Corps Volunteer and former Program Officer with the United States Agency for International Development, TOM DRISCOLL studied at the Iowa Playwrights Workshop. The author of many works of fiction, poetry and journalism, including Bleu: Selected Poems 1967 - 1997 and Ondine & the Blue Troll—Selected Short Works, Tom is also the Managing Editor and CEO of Shipwreckt Books Publishing Company and Lost Lake Folk Opera literary magazine. Shipwreckt Books author, Anne Muccino, won the gold medal for fiction in 2019 at the Midwest Book Awards (MIPA). In 2014, poet Steve Schild won the Midwest Book Awards silver medal for poetry.
Featured Work
Ondine & the Blue Troll, Ten Parables: Selected Short Works
Ø Mud Ball Dolls Ø Ondine & the Blue Troll Ø
Saint Martin Ø Nzombi Ø the Flying Horse Ø George’s Dream Ø Old Mamadou Ø Sirènes
Ø Regime of Bananas Ø Crazy Joseph Ø Snakes & Violets Ø
Characters plucked from war, folk lore and modern literature, from the Belgian Congo and the Dust Bowl; from the Battle of the Bulge, Congo Zaire, Gabon and the cold Pisgah Mountains of North Carolina; ink from the pen of Steinbeck and blood from the bitter heart of a wicked sorcerer, Tom Driscoll's characters come alive in ten lyric parables
