Tom Sokolowski
Tom Sokolowski completed an MFA at the University of Central Florida where he was awarded a Provost’s Fellowship. He’s currently a PhD candidate at Florida State University, and his other fiction is featured or forthcoming in the Minnesota Review, the Masters Review, Prime Number Magazine, and elsewhere. Tom served in the Florida Army National Guard. He is married to the poet Olivia Murphy Sokolowski, and lives in Tallahassee.
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Feeding Hour
After my first divorce, I took an adjunct position teaching freshman composition at Daytona State College, the first job I found more than a hundred miles from her without leaving Florida and, by August, moved what I had left, just a desk mostly, into a studio three blocks from the beach. There, my neighbors were […]
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Inviting the Reader to Make Meaning
Tom Sokolowski, author of “Feeding Hour” from Volume 72.2, explores the importance of endings as a means to inspire imagination from readers. He discusses pieces with memorable endings and argues that the key to an ending that will stick with a reader is a crucial image in the final scene that leaves the readers in […]