Tom Driscoll is a poet and essayist who lives and works in Lowell, Massachusetts. His poetry has appeared in Abraxas Review, Rock Salt Journal, Scapegoat Review, The Worcester Review, Oddball Magazine, Carcosa Magazine, The Ekphrastic Review, Decadent Review, Drawn To The Light, What Rough Beast and Second Coming from Indolent Books and in several Moonstone Arts Center’s Poetry Anthologies. Tom’s poem ‘Duty Leave Home’ won the Robert P. Collén Poetry Prize in 2017. ‘Notes on Demolition’ was selected an Editor’s Choice for the Allen Ginsberg Prize and ‘This isn’t the first time’ received Third Place in The Frank O’Hara Prize —both in 2021. ‘Upon Stealing Smithsonian Folkways from Franklin Library, Summer 1974’ won The Letter Review Poetry prize in 2024. Driscoll’s ekphrastic poems have appeared in the ‘Art on The Trails’ anthologies 2019-thru-2025 published by the Southborough Open Land Foundation. 'The Bend' was selected for the 2021 Mass Poetry Festival’s Ekphrastic Gallery.