Thomas V. Lerczak is the author of Side Channels:  A Collection of Nature Writing and Memoir, which was published in 2011, and numerous articles that have appeared in publications such as Big Muddy:  A Journal of the Mississippi River Valley, SHARK REEF: A Literary Magazine, Sobotka Literary Magazine, Big River, Illinois Heritage, and Illinois Audubon. 

Retired since 2018, he has worked as a coat checker, movie theater usher, shoe store shipping/receiving clerk, paper warehouseman, electronic technician, community college instructor, research scientist, and natural resource manager.  He lives with his wife Julie in a rural area of west-central Illinois, where he continues to write memoir, creative nonfiction essays, and fiction with the hope of shedding light onto relationships between the natural world and the human condition.

Listen to an interview of Thomas V. Lerczak on the Quad Cities’ WVIK-NPR show Scribble by Don Wooten and Rebecca Wee (click here).

Watch an interview of Thomas V. Lerczak on the Midwest Writing Center’s video series Write More Light by Sarah Elgatian (click here).