About the Author

Tom Burns was born in Fall River, Mass. on January 2, 1927. After tours of duty in the Marine Corps in WWII and Air Force during the Korean conflict he returned home to pursue and receive a B.S. degree in Engineering from the University of Massachusetts. Since his retirement from the Federal Aviation Administration in Washington, D.C. in 1979 he moved to Elizabeth City, N.C. where he now resides. He was elected to the Soil and Water Conservation District Board of Pasqoutank County in 1984 and was elected in 1991 to President of the N.C. Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts of the State. He was also appointed by the Governor to the State Soil and Water Commission where he served for three years.

His first book Anatomy of a Christian was published in 1994. The National Library of Poetry has published a number of his poems in their 1994 anthologies Echoes of Yesterday and Best Poems of 1995. His works can also be found on their recording, The Sound of Poetry.

Tom and his wife Hilda have been married for 54 years. They have one daughter and two granddaughters.