Joseph Earl Thomas

Joseph Earl Thomas is the author of Sink, a memoir, and the novel God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer, winner of the Center for Fiction first novel prize. His work across genres has been published in The Paris Review, The Verge, Harper’s, VQR, The Yale Review & elsewhere. A graduate of the University of Notre Dame’s MFA program, he also earned his PhD in English at The University of Pennsylvania. He teaches writing at Sarah Lawrence College, and courses in Black Studies and Literature at The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research.