Tom Lakin

Wellesley High School Author: Tom Lakin (2003) 

            Tom Lakin was both a writer and an athlete at WHS. His short fiction has appeared in Narrative (as a Story of the Week), Pleiades, Ruminate, Pembroke Magazine, Lunch Ticket, and The Adroit Journal, among others. He is the recipient of a 2018 G.B. Crump Prize in Experimental Fiction and has been a finalist or semi-finalist in several other contests, including The Saturday Evening Post Great American Fiction Contest and the American Short(er) Fiction Prize. Tom attended Bowdoin College and received his MFA from Emerson College. His poem “Don’t Loot, Don’t Shoot” honored George Floyd, and his short story “Rumor of Blood” has just been published.  www.tomlakinwriter.com