Tom Ahern is the author of three collections of short fiction, The Petrus Borel Stories, Hecatombs of Lake, and The Capture of Trieste, and of two poetry chapbooks, The Sinister Pinafore and Superbounce.  Holder of an M.A. and B.A. in English from Brown University, he is also a journalist and the director of Ahern Communications, Inc., based in Rhode Island and France.