He has reported in more than 30 countries and on five continents, on topics ranging from coal to cricket, art to revolution. He has three times been named Travel Journalist of the Year in North America for work that appeared in The Boston Globe, where he was a staff writer. Editors of the Nieman Narrative Digest described Tom as "a cross-cultural guide, seeking to take his readers into foreign worlds, to help them experience another culture's deep difference - and also its humanity." Tom is the author of one short story, "Great Rift Valley," which appeared in The Whitefish Review, and one play, "Chicken?," written and staged one fine weekend at The Crowley Theater, a converted feed store in the high-desert town of Marfa, Texas. Department of English • College of Liberal Arts • University of New Hampshire