Tom Crosshill grew up in Riga, Latvia. As a child he subsisted on a diet of Heinlein, McCaffrey and Tolkien. Having verified that every science fiction book published in his own language would fit on a single bookshelf, he had no alternative but to learn English at an early age.

Tom made his first writing friends at the Del Rey Online Writing Workshop in the late nineties. He traveled to the U.S. to study physics at Reed College and decided to stick around after graduation. In the past decade, he has operated a nuclear reactor, toiled on Wall Street, directed a play and worked inside a zinc mine. He has recently returned to Latvia to write full time. He's a satellite member of the writers' group Altered Fluid.

Since winning the Writers of the Future Contest in 2009, Tom has sold stories to such magazines as Intergalactic Medicine Show, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Lightspeed. His story "Mama, We are Zhenya, Your Son" is a nominee for the 2011 Nebula Award for Best Short Story. He is currently working on a novel and numerous short stories.