I am a Pushcart Prize-nominated writer, comedian and musician whose work has appeared in Willow Springs, Superstition Review, Leveler and What Rough Beast. My essay “Introductory Element Comma Independent Clause: a Study of the Moon and Bees” was nominated for a 2020 Pushcart Prize and received an honorable mention in The Best American Essays 2021 anthology; my poem “People Are Not Lights” won the 2018 Joseph Langland Prize from the Academy of American Poets. In 2012, I scored Constance Congdon’s play “Tales of the Lost Formicans” for the Great Plains Theatre Conference, and in 2018, I was a writer-in-residence at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center of Nebraska City. I have an MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Currently, I work for the nonprofit AIM Institute as a grant writer, editor, copywriter, and content specialist. Previously, I was grants manager for the Nebraska Arts Council; taught creative writing and contemporary literature at UMass Amherst and the University of Nebraska at Omaha; was copywriter and manager of content marketing for a digital advertising agency; and wrote grants, proclamations, and speeches for City of Omaha Mayor Jim Suttle.

I am available for freelance writing, editing, proofreading, grant consulting, music production, and voiceover work.

If you want to see what I’ve done, or just drop me a line, contact tomdavidmccauley@gmail.com.