Local Author Spotlight: Tom Driscoll 

Local Author Spotlight 
Tom Driscoll 

Please describe your writing routine. Is there a time of day or place that is most productive for you? 
First thing, between 5 AM and 8.

Is there anything in Lowell or in the surrounding area that has inspired your work? Such a place to take nice walks or a piece of artwork?
I live and work at Western Ave with my wife, a painter. It’s a vibrant art community. As a routine, I walk along the Suffolk Canal, to the river.

What do you believe are the most important elements of writing? How do you incorporate it into your own work?
Honesty, compassion. It’s a constant struggle with the duplicitous scoundrel, me.  

What advice would you give to a young writer and/or a writer starting their first creative work?  Honesty, compassion.

What were your favorite books when you were a child? 
Biographies. 

Do you have any reading recommendations? 
Sheila Heti’s ‘Motherhood’!
 

Tom Driscoll is a poet, columnist, and essayist who lives and works in Lowell, Massachusetts with his wife, artist Denise Driscoll. “The Champion of Doubt” published summer 2023 from Finishing Line Press. PW/Booklife said about the book, “…amid the brutal truth telling, an adhesive connects all the stories, memories, and confessions: love. In “Citizen Cain,” Driscoll writes “Once you’ve been broken there is a different tenderness” and it’s this that allows love to thrive for the damaged person, the damaged country, the damaged world.” Driscoll’s poetry has appeared in Oddball Magazine, Carcosa Review, Scapegoat, Paterson Literary Review, and The Worcester Review. His latest poetry collection ‘The Champion of Doubt’ is available at lala Books. For more information visit his website