Tom Glave

Thomas Glave is an American author, academic, and activist born to Jamaican parents in the Bronx, New York, where he grew up alongside Kingston, Jamaica. He earned a B.A. from Bowdoin College in 1993 and an M.F.A. from Brown University in 1998, and has taught at institutions including Binghamton University, focusing on creative writing and literature related to the Caribbean, African-American, postcolonial, and LGBT/Queer themes. Glave is known for his short fiction and essays exploring LGBT experiences, with notable works like Whose Song? and Other Stories and Words to Our Now, and has received awards including an O. Henry Prize.