Deconna, Thomas: - Thomas DeConna grew up in New Jersey and attended Seton Hall University, graduating with a degree in English. For thirty-nine years, he was an English teacher, working mostly with high school students.Thomas has poetry and short stories published in a number of literary journals; Season of Restorations is his first novel. The story's setting is New Jersey because, as the author has discovered, along with the most powerful forms of nature, life moves in a circle.He currently lives in Colorado with Sheryl, his wife of forty-five years.