Sally Thomas's poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, First Things, Sonora Review, Southern Poetry Review, Dappled Things, The Lost Country, Windhover, and numerous other journals. Her fiction has been shortlisted for the Tuscany Prize for Catholic Fiction and the J.F. Powers Prize for Short Fiction. She is the author of two previous collections of poetry: Brief Light: Sonnets and Other Small Poems ( Lancelot Books, 2012), and Fallen Water (Finishing Line Press, 2015). After sojourns in Utah and Great Britain (the setting for the poems in this collection), she makes her home in the Western Piedmont of North Carolina.
