Thomas Ballard is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter, as well as the author of short fiction and novels. He studied with Marge Piercy, Maria Irene Fornes, Robert Menna, Bill Johnson, and Susan Zender.

His short humor pieces have been published in Humor Times and Defenestration.

For fun, he posts short videos on his YouTube channel, TomBallardArts.

His website is TomBallardArts.com.