Robert Thomas’ novel, Bridge, published by BOA Editions, Ltd, was named the 2015 PEN Center USA Literary Award for Fiction. His first book of poetry, Door to Door, was selected by Yusef Komunyakaa as winner of the Poets Out Loud Prize and published by Fordham University Press, and his second book, Dragging the Lake, was published by Carnegie Mellon University Press. He has received a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and won a Pushcart Prize. www.robertthomaspoems.com