Thomas Leverett's writing is influenced partly by a 48-state, 4-country hitchhiking journey, and partly by a 30-year career as a university ESL teacher. The e pluribus haiku poetry series reflects intimate knowledge of every corner of the US, while his short stories focus on the nature of people and their failings. From his time as a musician he became acutely aware of the artists' role in representing culture. He has a blended family with ten children total, and has just returned to Illinois after ten years in the southwest USA. He is aware that he might do better sticking with a single genre, yet has come to accept the fact that his large family, time constraints, and adhd nature ensure that he will probably always work in several.
