Tom Robotham is an award-winning writer, editor and teacher. He began his career as an education reporter and music columnist for The Staten Island Advance in New York City and subsequently embarked on a successful freelance career. In addition to contributing to a variety of national and regional newspapers and magazines, he has written five books on American history and culture. He is now freelancing once again, after serving for 10 years as editor-in-chief of Port Folio Weekly, an alternative newsweekly serving southeastern Virginia. During his tenure there he won numerous awards, including the Virginia Press Association’s prestigious D. Lathan Mims Award for Editorial Leadership in the Community. Tom holds a B.A. in English from the State University of New York, Plattsburgh, and a M.A. in American Studies from the City University of New York Graduate Center. He currently lives in Norfolk, Virginia, where he teaches at Old Dominion University and The Muse Writers Center (for which he serves as an advisory board member) and is the editor of TReeHouse: A Magazine of Possibilities.