Educated at Western Michigan University and University of Houston, Jamie Thomas lives in Detroit and teaches in the Languages and Literature Department at Ferris State University. A recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize, Thomas’ poems have appeared in such journals as 32 Poems, 5 AM, The Chariton Review, The Missouri Review, The Offending Adam, Rattle, Verse and online at Verse Daily. Etch and Blur is his first collection of poems.



