Local Author Tom Conlan's new book "Gentle Spirits"

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 lakes and oceans and Captained a Coast Guard Cutter. Tom's prose and poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals, as well as Michigan Trout Magazine. His lyrical memoir My Journey Begins Where the Road Ends... was released in June 2017 (Mission Point Press, Amazon.) His novel Gentle Spirits will debut in May 2023 from Legacy Book Press. 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.