Thom Nickels is an author, poet, and feature writer for Philadelphia Style magazine, a columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News, and co-founder of the Coalition for Philadelphia Art. Two of his novellas were nominated for a Lambda Literary Award and a Hugo Award. He is currently the City Beat editor at ICON Magazine, a contributing editor/writer at The Weekly Press, and a weekly columnist (The Local Lens) for Philadelphia’s SPIRIT Community Newspapers. He is the Religion Editor for the Lambda Book Report, and has written for Philadelphia's Broad Street Review, The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News.