Creative Writing Program | Reading Series

Reading Series, Fall 2009

THOMAS GLAVE, fiction writer and essayist

Thomas Glave was born in the Bronx and grew up there and in Kingston, Jamaica. A graduate of Bowdoin College and Brown University, Glave traveled as a Fulbright Scholar to Jamaica, where he studied Jamaican historiography and Caribbean intellectual and literary traditions. While in Jamaica, Glave worked on issues of social justice, and helped found the Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, All-Sexuals, and Gays (J-FLAG).

Glave is author of the essay collection Words to Our Now: Imagination and Dissent, nominated for a 2006 Publishing Triangle Gay Men’s Nonfiction Award and winner of the 2005 Lambda Literary Award in Nonfiction. His fiction collection, Whose Song? and Other Stories, was nominated by the American Library Association for their “Best Gay/Lesbian Book of the Year” award and by the Quality Paperback Book Club for their Violet Quill/Best New Gay/Lesbian Fiction Award. His newest book of fiction, The Torturer’s Wife, was released in fall 2008, following the June 2008 publication of his edited anthology, Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles, for which Glave won his second Lambda Literary Award, for LGBT Anthology. The recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including an O. Henry Prize for fiction and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fine Arts Center in Provincetown, Glave was named a “Writer on the Verge” by The Village Voice in 2000. He was the 2008-2009 Martin Luther King, Jr., Visiting Professor in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Glave currently teaches at Binghamton University-SUNY.

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