Tom ChmielewskiTom Chmielewski is a long-time journalist who grew up in Detroit and now lives in Kalamazoo, MI. He has written for newspapers, magazines, books and online content. Tom continues to freelance for regional publications and has written science articlesfor The Atlantic. A lifelong fan of science fiction, and an alumnus of the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop, he began writing science fiction in earnest after the turn of the century and recently became treasurer of The Clarion Foundation which oversees the Clarion Workshop. The Silent Siege of Mars is his third novel. About his last name. It's Polish and means people from the land of hops. Another reporter at a newspaper he worked at translated it simply as People of the beer. As for pronouncing his name, Tom works. Read More Read Less