Tom Ross writes about family history, using autobiographical elements as a point of fictional departure. He is a statistician in New York. ""(I Am) a Very Stylish Girl,"" a chapter-length excerpt of Miss Abracadabra, was published in Raritan Quarterly. Miss Abracadabra is his first book.
""Miss Abracadabra: As the World Turns fulfills the challenge and demand Toni Morrison once named for American literature as ‘a non-racist, racialized account of human experience’ . . . Tom Ross accurately recreates on the page a pitch-perfect rendering of American racism narrated and experienced beyond the self-reproducing, self-defeating, limiting, and finally dead-end confines of racism’s psychologically deforming affects and effects."" —Peter Dimock, author of Daybook from Sheep Meadow