Tom Springer

Tom Springer lives in an old farmhouse near Three Rivers, Michigan, with his wife Nancy and their two daughters. By day, he’s a communications manager at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in Battle Creek. On his own time, he gardens, fishes, keep bees, prays, procrastinates and writes about the curious intersect between people and the natural world -- what he’s termed “the wild nearby.” His first collection of essays, Looking for Hickories (University of Michigan Press, 2009), was named a Michigan Notable Book. He will soon (a dangerous word, that) complete his second collection of essays, tentatively titled The Star in the Sycamore.