Tohm Bakelas is a social worker in a psychiatric hospital. He was born in New Jersey, resides there, and will die there. His poems have appeared in numerous journals, zines, and online publications. He is the author of 27 chapbooks and several collections of poetry, including "Cleaning the Gutters of Hell” (Zeitgeist Press, 2023) and “The Ants Crawl In Circles” (Bone Macine, Inc., 2024). He has read his poems across America and England. He is also the editor of Between Shadows Press.