Joseph Earl Thomas

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Joseph Earl Thomas is the author of Sink, a memoir (Grand Central Publishing, 2022), longlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, the forthcoming novel God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer (Grand Central Publishing, 2024), and the forthcoming story collection Leviathan Beach (Grand Central, 2025). His writing has been published in The Kenyon Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Dilettante Army, and The New York Times Book Review. His honors include the 2020 Chautauqua Janus Prize, and fellowships from Kimbilio, VONA, Tin House and Bread Loaf. A graduate of the University of Notre Dame’s MFA program in prose, he is earning a PhD in English at The University of Pennsylvania. He is also a member of the writing faculty at Sarah Lawrence College, and teaches courses in Black Studies, Poetics, Video Games, Queer Theory and more at The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research.

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