Thomas Lux is a member of the writing faculty and director of the MFA Program in Poetry at
Sarah Lawrence College and a core faculty member of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers.
In recent years he has also taught at the universities of
Michigan, Iowa and California (Irvine). A former Guggenheim Fellow and the recipient of three
NEA grants, Lux won the Kingsley Tufts Award for Split Horizon, and was also a finalist
for the Los Angeles Times Book Award in poetry. His many volumes of poetry include Memory’s
Handgrenade (1972); The Glassblower’s Breath (1976); Sunday (1979); Half Promised
Land (1986); and The Drowned River (1990). The Blind Swimmer: Selected Early
Poems, 1970-75, appeared in 1996. His New and Selected Poems, 1975-1995 is published
by Houghton Mifflin (1997).
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