About

Author and essayist Tom Waters has been writing since the age of 13 when an English teacher encouraged him to continue journal entries and poems. After editing and contributing to his high school paper, Waters went on to write for The Buffalo State Record. After leaving college, he freelanced for The Buffalo News, ArtVoice, Night Life Magazine, Acid Logic, Film Fax, Alt, Buffalo Beat, Boy’s Night Out, World Wide Freelancer, The Circle and Dream Forge. From 2000-2010 he wrote eleven books and co-edited a non-profit anthology (Voices From The Herd: An Anthology For Buffalo, NY) with authors Alycia Ripley and Cindy Mantai. To date, he has published eight books ranging from humorous rants and essays (Born Pissed, Zany Hijinx, First Person Last Straw, If They Can’t Take A Joke and Slapstick & Superego), conventional and modern poetry (Breathing Room Volume I: Free Verse and Breathing Room Volume II: Rhymes & Relics) and Hunter S. Thompson-esque bar reviews (Clean Up After Me, I’m Irish: A Cheap Degenerate’s Guide To Buffalo Bars). From 2002-2005, Waters was a frequent celebrity interviewer for ArtVoice, conducting and transcribing over three dozen interviews with Bret Easton Ellis, Carrie Spadter, Diane Meholick and many others). From 2000-2010, Waters wrote exotic club reviews, bar reviews, interviews and a weekly column (Big Words I Know By Heart) for Night Life Magazine. Since 2007, he’s been a frequent bar reviewer for The Buffalo News’ ‘Club Watch’ section, favoring corner taverns, pubs and bars over flashy downtown ‘it’ spots. In 2008, he agreed to host a one hour comedy show (‘The Big Words I Know By Heart Radio Hour’), which rapidly gained a cult fan base on iTunes as well as the web. The author lives in the Village of Lancaster (a suburb outside of Buffalo), New York with his wife Lindsay.

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