About Me
- award-winning writer
- Tom Mach won the J. Donald Coffin Memorial Book Award for Sissy!, awards for his second novel, All Parts Together, and an Editor’s Choice Award from the International Library of Poetry after writing The Uni Verse. He also wrote many articles for such publications as Writer’s Digest, Woman’s Day, Jack & Jill, and many others—as well as a short story that appeared in Stamp World. A former editor of South Bay Accent magazine in California and Software Supermarket in Ohio, Tom is active in the Kansas Authors Club and was past president of two branches of the California Writers Club. In addition, he taught advertising copywriting at San Jose State University and is a requested speaker for organizations such as schools, churches, libraries, and fraternal clubs. He was also a paid presenter for a workshop on writing historical fiction at the East of Eden Writers Conference and gave a writing workshop on fiction writing for Kansas University's Adult Education Department. He's also had his poems published in newspapers and anthologies. He hopes that someday, the Lawrence-based River City Reading Festival will recognize his literary achievements by inviting his as an author to that event.