Tom Mach won awards for each of the three novels of his trilogy--Sissy!, All Parts Together, and Angels at Sunset. He also won an award for his poetry collection The Uni Verse. Mach was a university instructor, journalist, and an editor of magazines and newsletters. He wrote a collection of short stories, song lyrics, and two plays for the stage. He had a children's book published called The Invisible Twins and another called Homer the Roamer. He went on to write a memoir called Persistence, Then Peace. One of his novels was nominated in 2012 by an Eastern college for the Nobel Prize for Literature, but he is particularly proud of the Lifetime Achievement Award he earned at the Kansas Authors Club. His latest work, Forgiveness Forever, was published under a pen name (A. T. Christe). Many readers thought this novel was a great read, giving it a five-star recommendation. Mach believes this is his best work to date.