Tom Laichas is the author of Three Hundred Streets of Venice California (FutureCycle Press, 2023), Sixty-Three Photographs from the End of a War (3.1 Press, 2021), and Empire of Eden (High Window Press, 2019). Trained as a historian, he was founding co-editor of the journal World History Connected (George Mason University) and currently serves on WHC's editorial board. He lives with his wife Donna in Venice, California.