Tom Walmsley (born 13 December 1948, in Liverpool, England) is a Canadian playwright, novelist, poet and screenwriter.
[citation needed] Walmsley's most recent play, The Nun's Vacation, "questions the relationship between actions and identities.
His most common themes include sex (both hetero- and homosexual, often involving sado-masochistic fetishes, adulterous affairs, and, in the case of Blood, incest), violence, addiction (to alcohol and heroin in particular), and God (from a Christian perspective).
[6] He rarely deals with politics directly, although he openly displays a distaste for middle-class morality and social conservative interpretations of Christianity.
[6] Early in his career, Walmsley summarized his sense of personal identity as "blond, stocky, below average height, uncircumcised, bisexual, tattooed, with bad teeth and very large feet".