Tom Chandler is poet laureate of Rhode Island emeritus. He has been named Phi Beta Kappa Poet at Brown University and has been a featured poet at the Robert Frost homestead. Garrison Keillor has read Tom's poems on National Public Radio on several occasions.

Tom is the author of five books of poetry, including his most recent, Toy Firing Squad. His work has been published in Poetry, Boulevard, The New York Quarterly, The Christian Science Monitor, and many other journals.

He holds degrees from Brown and the University of New Hampshire. He is also the founder and editor of the Bryant Literary Review.