Tom Sandborn is a Vancouver based writer, organizer and consultant. Born in Alaska, he has lived in the Lower Mainland since 1967, when a foreign policy dispute with the Kissinger Administration over the war in Vietnam brought him to Canada. Now a Canadian citizen, he has been a youth worker, a gestalt therapist and encounter group leader, a truck, bus and taxi driver, a bar tender and warehouse worker, a journalist, educator, social worker, broadcaster, fundraiser and organizer.

Raised in the wilderness by wolves, Sandborn is a sort of feral author who owes most of what he knows to the generous efforts of feminist women, poets of all genders, renegade nuns and Jesuits, itinerant anarchists, Reds and agitators of all sorts. His work has appeared in the Vancouver Sun, the Georgia Straight, the Democrat, the Globe and Mail, Compass and Makara magazines, Xtra West, the Tyee and the Straight Goods on line, the Columbia Journal, the Vancouver Review and the Rain, as well as in broadcast form on CBC radio.

He currently serves on the boards of directors for the BC Civil Liberties Association and the Judith Marcuse Project and has just completed three years of ongoing work to address sweat shop labour abuses both locally and around the world. During his decades in Canada, he has done extensive political and community organizing around issues of male violence and women's liberation, first nations land claims, peace, environmental crisis, racism and civil liberties.

Together with his beloved wife Louise Alden, he tries to keep up with birthdays and other significant events for an ever growing Golden Horde of grown children, grand-children scattered across North America and a flying circus of treasured friends and accomplices. He tries, as advised by Gramsci, to maintain optimism of the heart and pessimism of the intellect. Most days he can manage this difficult balance for minutes at a time.