Tom C. Hunley
Thursday, March 30^th
2017
6:30 pm
University Art Gallery

Tom C. Hunley holds degrees from University of Washington, Eastern Washington University, and Florida State University.  He is the author of four full-length poetry collections, most recently PLUNK (Wayne State College Press, 2004); six chapbooks, most recently Scotch Tape World (Accents Publishing, 2014); and two textbooks, most recently The Poetry Gymnasium: 94 Proven Exercises to Shape Your Best Verse (McFarland & Co., Inc., 2012).  He is the co-editor, with Alexandria Peary, of Creative Writing Pedagogies for the Twenty-First Century (Southern Illinois University Press, 2015). He has also written for a variety of literary publications such as TriQuarterly, New York Quarterly, Five Points, The Writer, North American Review, New Orleans Review, Rattle, Crab Orchard Review, Verse Daily, The Writer’s Chronicle, Atlanta Review and Poetry Daily.  His poems have been featured several times on Garrison Keillor’s NPR program, The Writer’s Almanac.  In addition to writing his own poetry and prose, he is the book review editor for Poemeleon and the director/founder of Steel Toe Books.