Tom Cosentino was born and raised in Syracuse, New York. He attended Syracuse University where he earned a degree in Political Science and later earned an MBA from the Rochester Institute of Technology. He was commissioned in the United States Army after graduation from Syracuse and served as a Field Artillery Officer in the 1st Infantry Division. After the Army, he tried various careers and finally followed his desire to be a writer when he and his family moved to Safety Harbor, Florida, where he found a thriving writing community. He has published several short stories and now has two successful novels, "The Art of Looking for Trouble" and "The Summer We Almost Painted the House". "The Minor Angel of Liberty Hill" is the sequel to his first novel and was inspired by a writer's trip to Ireland. Tom and his wife Caye have two children, Genevieve and Dominic.