Tom McEachin

Tom McEachin is a retired professor of English at Laredo College on the Texas/Mexico border. He earned a B.A. in Journalism from Central Michigan University, an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and an M.A. in English from Texas A&M International University. He was born in Saginaw, Michigan.

Fun fact: Country and Western singer Lefty Frizzell had a hit song in the 1950s titled "Saginaw, Michigan." Another fun fact: Simon and Garfunkel mentioned Saginaw in their song "America."

He worked as an editor for newspapers in the West and spent more than a decade as a sports writer covering the Utah Jazz and the NBA Favorite authors include Flannery O'Connor, Malcolm Gladwell, Kent Haruf, Tobias Wolff, Raymond Carver, Alice Munro, George Saunders, and Theodore Drieser, to name just a few.