Thomas Bolt

"Bolt writes with a deadly,
stiletto-sharp focus and
with a passion that is
not only believable, but
enticing and contagious."

—Booklist

Fiction:
"A Cluster of Sunsets"


Poetry:
Out of the Woods


Poem: "Wedgwood"

The usual literary bio tempts parody:

Born in the latter half of the last century, X has worked as caster in lost wax, a newspaper deliverer, a hospital orderly, a wine-taster, a union organizer, and as part-time curator of the world's tallest lodgepole pine.

Acclaimed as one of America's glowing voices, X was awarded the Proof Prize for Best Unread Manuscript. As winner of the Gozo Manslayer Fellowship, X spent a year on the Paris Metro and a week on Malta, shopping for hats. Those hats inspired The Hat Poems—which Faint called "One...of the [books] published this year."

Winner of the Institute of Applied Poetry's Hammerstone Selection for Best Twelfth Volume, The Hat Poems has sold more than 80 copies around the world.

Sitzfleisch Professor of Creative Writing at Sugart Institute of Technology for the past 17 years, X has influenced a generation of students, many of whom have gone on to become adults.

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