Thomas Domenici, after receiving his Ph.D. (1984) did a post-doctoral fellowship at USC/LA County Psychiatric Hospital, working with inpatient and outpatient children and adolescents who had been sexually abused. Subsequently, he did a two-year fellowship at a private clinic working with incest perpetrators and child molesters. In 1989, he was the first openly identified gay male accepted for training at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He was a co-editor of the anthology Disorienting Sexuality: Reappraisal of Sexual Identities: 1995, Routledge, New York, and author of Soul Murder: Sometimes the Only Way to Escape the Past is to Kill It: 2024, Rattling Good Yarns Press, California. His newest novels are A Brother’s Promise and But for Hope, released by Wall Yo Press in 2024.