Jeffrey Thomson is the author of five books of poems, including his most recent collection, The Belfast Notebooks: Poems and Prose, as well as the memoir, fragile. Half/Life: New and Selected Poems is forthcoming from Alice James Books. He has been Fulbright Distinguished Scholar in Creative Writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre in Northern Ireland and the Hodson Trust-John Carter Brown Fellow at Brown University.  He is a professor of Creative Writing at the University of Maine Farmington.

Website: www.jeffreythomson.com

Twitter Username: @jeffreyThomson

Publications

• The Belfast Notebooks: Poems and Prose , Salmon Poetry (February 1, 2016)
• fragile: a memoir , Red Mountain Press (November 15, 2015)
• ThePoems of Catullus: An Annotated Translation , Cambridge University Press (May 1, 2015)
• Birdwatching in Wartime , Carnegie Mellon University Press (January 1, 2009)

Awards

• Fulbright Distinguished Scholar of Creative Writing at Seamus Heaney Poetry Centre, Queen's University Belfast(2012)
• National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship(2005)
• Hodson Trust-John Carter Brown Fellowship at Brown University(2015)

Employment

• Professor of Creative Writing at University of Maine Farmington (August 2005 - )

Degrees

• Doctoral Degree in Creative Writing, 20th Century American Lit & Environmental Literature from University of Missouri (August 1996)

Genres of Interest

Fiction, Creative nonfiction, Poetry