JOSEPH EARL THOMAS is the author of Sink: A Memoir (Grand Central Publishing), God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer: A Novel (Grand Central Publishing), and the forthcoming story collection Leviathan Beach (Grand Central Publishing). His prose, poetry, and criticism has been published in The Kenyon Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Dilettante Army, and The New York Times Book Review. Sink was longlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. A graduate of the University of Notre Dame’s MFA program in prose, Thomas is earning a Ph.D. in English at the University of Pennsylvania. He teaches writing at Sarah Lawrence College and courses in Black studies, poetics, queer theory, video games, and more at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research.
