Tom Crosshill

Tom Crosshill (real name Toms Kreicbergs; born 1985) is a Latvian author of speculative and literary fiction, active since 2010. His work has appeared in publications in Chinese, Spanish, English, Finnish, Latvian and Polish. Crosshill has been nominated for several Nebula Awards He has been shortlisted by Forbes Baltics in the "40 under 40" list of financial professionals.

Biography

Crosshill was born and raised in Riga, Latvia, where he learned English at an early age to read American speculative fiction in its original language. He studied physics at Reed College, Portland, Oregon, and later lived in New York and Iowa before returning to his native Latvia.

His work has appeared in various periodicals, podcasts and anthologies, including The Baltic Atlas, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Clarkesworld, The Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine, Lightspeed, Nebula Awards Showcase 2016, Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, Sybil's Garage, and Writers of the Future Volume XXVI.

Crosshill's work has also been nominated for the WSFA Small Press Award and the Annual Latvian Literary Award. He was a winner in the Writers of the Future Contest, published in 2010. He won the European Science Fiction Society Award for Best Author in 2016.