Author: Tom Ireland
Bio: Tom Ireland’s books are 

 - Mostly Mules, a travel journal with photos by Molly Mehaffy
 - Birds of Sorrow: Notes from a River Junction in Northern New Mexico
 - Our Love Is Like A Cake, true-life romance in post-Soviet Poland
 - The Man Who Gave His Wife Away, an essay collection about relationships
 - The Household Muse, a collaboration with Anne Valley-Fox. 

He was awarded a literary fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Jeffrey E. Smith award in nonfiction from The Missouri Review. Two of his essays were chosen to appear in Best American Travel Writing.