Thom Conroy is the author of The Salted Air and The Naturalist (Penguin Random-House) and the editor of the personal essay collection Home (Massey University Press). The winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Fiction Prize, he has published short fiction widely in literary journals in the United States, New Zealand, and Australia. Thom is currently a senior lecturer in Creative Writing at Massey University, where he also serves as Editor-in-Chief of the literary journal Headland.