Literary Nonfiction. BIRDS OF SORROW details the author's experiences after leaving the East coast to live on a 10-acre farm called La Junta in northern New Mexico, where he built a house, fenced in land, lived, and wrote. "This collection offers a refreshing account of [Ireland's] experience of the American West...whose appeal is delightfully idiosyncratic and universally human"--Publishers Weekly.

Author City: SANTA FE, NM USA

Tom Ireland's books are Mostly Mules, a travel journal with photos; BIRDS OF SORROW: NOTES FROM A RIVER JUNCTION IN NORTHERN NEW MEXICO; Our Love Is Like A Cake, true-life romance in post-Soviet Poland; and The Man Who Gave His Wife Away, an essay collection on the topic of relationships. He was awarded a literary fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Jeffrey E. Smith award in nonfiction from The Missouri Review. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he edits archaeology and rides bikes.

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