Thomas Glave was born in the Bronx and grew up there and in Kingston, Jamaica. A graduate of Bowdoin College and Brown University , Glave is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Binghamton. In 2000, City Lights books published his collection Whose Song? and Other Stories appeared which was nominated by the American Library Association for their "Best Gay/Lesbian Book of the Year" award, by the Quality Paperback Book Club for their Violet Quill Award. Recently, he has recently completed a second collection, The Trials of Taran J. and Other Not-Fictions, and is working on a novel, a collection of essays. His awards include two New York Foundation for the Arts fellowships, a Fullbright Scholarship, an O. Henry Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and a fellowship from the Fine Arts Center in Provincetown. Glave was named a "Writer on the Verge" by The Village Voice in 2000. Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer has said of Glave, "[he]has the strong talent and courage to take up the right to enter the inner selves of both black and white characters in his stories.”

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