Toni Thomas' poems have been published in literary magazines in Austria, New Zealand, Canada, England, Scotland, and Australia. In the United States, her work has appeared in over fifty literary magazines, including Prairie Schooner, North Dakota Quarterly, Hayden's Ferry Review, the minnesota review, Weber - The Contemporary West, Rhino, Notre Dame Review, and Poetry East. She has received Atlanta Review's International Merit Award and an Ann Stanford Poetry Prize from the Southern California Review. Her poems have twice been nominated by literary magazines for a Pushcart Prize. Her first chapbook, Walking on Water, was published by Finishing Line Press. Her second chapbook, Fast as Lightning, won the 2010 Gribble Press Poetry Competition. Chosen was a finalist in the 2010 Brick Road Poetry Press competition. Recently two additional full length manuscripts were finalists for the Anhinga Poetry Prize, the May Swenson Poetry Award, and the Crab Orchard Poetry Prize.
She lives in Oregon with her children and likes to contemplate the moon from her bed.
