Larry D. Thomas, New Mexico, a member of the Texas Institute of Letters and the 2008 Texas Poet Laureate, resides in Las Cruces. He has published several award-winning and critically acclaimed collections of poetry, most recently As If Light Actually Matters: New & Selected Poems (Texas Review Press, Texas A&M University Press Consortium 2015) and Boiling It Down: The Electronic Poetry Chapbooks of Larry D. Thomas (Blue Horse Press 2019).

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