Robert Thomas

Robert Thomas’s novella Bridge (BOA Editions) received the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Fiction. His first book of poetry, Door to Door (Fordham), was selected by Yusef Komunyakaa for the Poets Out Loud Prize, and his second poetry collection, Dragging the Lake, was published by Carnegie Mellon. He has received an NEA fellowship and a Pushcart Prize. His sonnet sequence “Negligee and Hatchet” was selected by Kim Addonizio for first prize in the Nimrod Pablo Neruda Poetry Contest. www.robertthomaspoems.com