Thomas Bolt

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Thomas Bolt
Born1959 (age 64–65)
Washington, D.C., U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater Corcoran School of Art
University of Virginia
GenreFiction and Poetry

Thomas Bolt (born 1959 in Washington, D.C.) is an American fiction writer, poet, and artist.

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Life

He attended public and private schools. He was a pre-college scholarship student at the Corcoran School of Art and received a B.A. in English (cum laude) and Art from the University of Virginia.

His paintings have been shown in group exhibitions in New York. Land (1982), a hand-printed book of his poems and etchings, is in the rare book collections of the Library of Congress and the University of Virginia.

His poems have appeared in The Paris Review, BOMB, and Southwest Review (where his long poem, "Wedgwood," won an award for the best poem the quarterly published in 1994).

His short stories and novel excerpts have appeared in BOMB, n+1, Epiphany, and in The O. Henry Prize Stories, 2018.

He has read from his work in New York (with n+1 at the Ace Hotel, at Mad Alex Presents, the Limbo Reading Series, the Poetry Society of America, the Alliance Stage Poets' Reading Series, and the Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y), [1] and in Rome (at the Villa Aurelia). He lives in Toronto.

Awards

Works

Books

Anthologies

Collaborations

Interviews

Reviews

Publishers Weekly:

Bolt handles his subject matter with admirable attention to detail and precision of language; he ranges easily from adjective-replete accounts to stark, minimalist statements [15]

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