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'''Thomas Glave''' is an [[United States|American]] author, was born in the [[Bronx]]. He grew up there and in [[Kingston]], [[Jamaica]]. A two-time [[New York Foundation for the Arts]] Fellow, he is a graduate of [[Bowdoin College]] and [[Brown University]]. His |
'''Thomas Glave''' is an [[United States|American]] author, was born in the [[Bronx]]. He grew up there and in [[Kingston]], [[Jamaica]]. A two-time [[New York Foundation for the Arts]] Fellow, he is a graduate of [[Bowdoin College]] and [[Brown University]]. His , the [[Lambda Literary Award]] in 2005 [http://www.lambdaliterary.org/awards/previous_winners/LLF_award_winners2006.html], an [[O. Henry Prize]] (he is the second [[gay]] [[African American]] writer, after [[James Baldwin]], to win this award) a Fine Arts Center in Provincetown Fellowship, and a Fulbright fellowship to Jamaica. While there, he worked on issues of social justice, and helped found the Jamaica Forum of Lesbians, All-Sexuals, and Gays. |
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Thomas Glave is the author of ''Whose Song? and Other Stories'', (City Lights Publishing, 2000), ''The Torturer's Wife'', (City Lights Publishing, 2008), the essay collection ''Words to Our Now: Imagination and Dissent'' (University of Minnesota Press, |
Thomas Glave is the author of ''Whose Song? and Other Stories'', (City Lights Publishing, 2000), ''The Torturer's Wife'', (City Lights Publishing, 2008), the essay collection ''Words to Our Now: Imagination and Dissent'' (University of Minnesota Press, 2005), and is editor of the anthology ''Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles''[http://www.dukeupress.edu/books.php3?isbn=978-0-8223-4226-7]. He is the 2008-2009 Martin Luther King Jr. Visiting Professor in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]. |
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Source: [http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100229350&fa=author&person_id=4965&publishergcoicode=87286] |
Source: [http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100229350&fa=author&person_id=4965&publishergcoicode=87286] |
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Thomas Glave is an American author, was born in the Bronx. He grew up there and in Kingston, Jamaica. A two-time New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow, he is a graduate of Bowdoin College and Brown University. His essay collection Words to Our Now: Imagination and Dissent, won the Lambda Literary Award in 2005 [1], an O. Henry Prize (he is the second gay African American writer, after James Baldwin, to win this award). He has also earned a Fine Arts Center in Provincetown Fellowship, and a Fulbright fellowship to Jamaica. While there, he worked on issues of social justice, and helped found the Jamaica Forum of Lesbians, All-Sexuals, and Gays.
Thomas Glave is the author of Whose Song? and Other Stories, (City Lights Publishing, 2000), The Torturer's Wife, (City Lights Publishing, 2008), the essay collection Words to Our Now: Imagination and Dissent (University of Minnesota Press, 2005), and is editor of the anthology Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles[2]. He is the 2008-2009 Martin Luther King Jr. Visiting Professor in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Source: [3]
External Links:
- Interview with Thomas Glave: [4]