Tom Driscoll, the author of fiction and non-, a poet and a journalist, spent many years working in sub-Saharan Africa, beginning with Peace Corps, and later with USAID. He is an Army veteran, a graduate of University of Iowa, where he studied in the Playwrights Workshop. He is the Managing editor and CEO of Shipwreckt Books Publishing Company. Shipwreckt Books has issued 77 publications and its authors and poets have been award a gold medal for fiction and three silver medals for poetry, anthology, and cookbook from the Midwest Independant Publishers Assoociation.