Thom Rock

Thom Rock is the author of A Table in the Wilderness: Forty Days of Forgiveness and Blueberry Fool: Memory, Moments, and Meaning. He lives and writes in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont.

"What I really want you to know about me," the author says, "is that I find writing, wondering, and wandering curiously connected. In fact, I find it hard to separate the three. They are among the first things we learn to do as human beings. Before we ever learn to string words together on a page, we learn how put one foot in front of the other and how to combine the understood and the unknown in order to form the question 'Why?' in our young minds. A thoughtful question, a meandering walk, or even a well-crafted sentence--each is a kind of adventure (and who doesn't like an adventure?) The allure of all good writing, at least for me, is not only the hope of deeper understanding, but also the prospect of arriving somewhere other than where I began--whether that new place is somewhere in the natural landscape, or the dark cranial cave atop my spine, or at the end of a sentence on a page."