Tom Crosshill

Tom Crosshill (born 1985, real name Toms Kreicbergs) is a writer and financial adviser. He began his career in Wall Street investment banking. Crosshill first became known to Latvian readers with his collection of fantasy stories “Dubultnieki” (“Seeing Double”), published in 2011 by "Zvaigzne ABC". He recently received the European Science Fiction Society award as Best Author. He has been nominated three times for the Nebula Award, and once – for the Annual Latvian Literary Award. Tom Crosshill grew up in Riga, Latvia. Tom made his first writing friends at the Del Rey Online Writing Workshop in the late nineties. He travelled to the U.S. to study physics at Reed College, While living in New York he joined the writers’ group Altered Fluid. Toms Kreicbergs writes in English and publishes as Tom Crosshill. His latest novel is aimed at young adults, and tells a story about a young American teenager's journey to his motherland – Cuba. Romance, dance, and the crude reality of Tropical Communism intertwines with spy mysteries. The author draws on his own experience having lived in Cuba for over a year. Shortly after being published, the novel was recognized by the prestigious "Junior Library Guild". Tom Crosshill mainly writes scinece fiction and fantasy and many of his short stories are available in various fiction magazines online in English. “The Cat King of Havana” will soon be available in Latvian, Spanish, French and Russian. 

Havanas kaķu karalis [The Cat King of Havana]. Riga: Zvaigzne ABC, 2019. 
The Cat King of Havana. NY: Katherine Tegen Books, 2016.
The Cattle Express: A Tale of Wall Street and Siberia,  Dallas: Currents & Tangents - Shirtsleeve Press, 2016.
Fragmentation: A Collection — Sylvester Reinhardt Press
Lopu Ekspresis [The Cattle Express]. Riga: Zvaigzne ABC, 2016.
Dubultnieki [Seeing Double]. Riga: Zvaigzne ABC, 2011.

Short Fiction

The Dark City Luminous, The Baltic Atlas/Sternberg Press/Clarkesworld, 2016
The Magician and Laplace's Demon, Clarkesworld, 2014.
Fragmentation, or Ten Thousand Goodbyes, Clarkesworld, 2014.
A Well-Adjusted Man, Lightspeed, 2012.
Bearslayer and the Black Knight, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 2012.
Mama, We are Zhenya, Your Son, Lightspeed, 2011.
To Fly a Pig in the Dorseny Sky, Flash Fiction Online, 2012.
Express to Paris by Dragon First Class, Intergalactic Medicine Show, audio, read by Mary Robinette Kowal.
Seeing Double, novelette, Writers of the Future 26, Science Fiction Short Stories, Anthology of Winners of Worldwide Writing Contest (L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future), 2010.
Thinking Woman’s Crop of Fools, Sybil’s Garage No. 7
Sandra Plays for the Cast-Iron Man, Flash Fiction Online, 2010.
The Zombie of His Early Days, Flash Fiction Online, 2010.
Waiting for Number Five, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 2010.
To Be Alone Again, short story, Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine, Episode 58.

Audio conversation with Tom Crosshill // Latvijas Sabiedriskie Mediji, 2018 [LV]

Interview with Tom Crosshill // Diena.lv, 2017 [LV]

About The Cattle Express // Diena.lv, 2016 [LV]

About The Cat King of Havana // Harper Collins Publishers, 2016 [EN]

About The Cat King of Havana // Publishers Weekly [EN]

Tom Crosshill // Tom Crosshill's Website [LV; EN]

On financing and business // Tom Crosshill's Blog [LV]

Waiting for Number Five // Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 2010 [EN]

Andrejs Vīksna, Toms un Pēteris, review of The Cattle Express // Online magazine Satori, 2016 [LV]

Bārbala Simsone, Dubultā stāstvedība, review of Seeing Double // Diena.lv, 2012 [LV]

2012, Nebula Award Nominee for Best Short Story for Fragmentation, or Ten Thousand Goodbyes

2014, Nebula Award nominee for Best Novelette of 2014, for The Magician and Laplace’s Demon

2014, WSFA Small Press Award finalist for Short Fiction for The Magician and Laplace’s Demon

2011, shortlisted for the Annual Latvian Literature Award Best Debut for Dubultnieki