Thomas Glave is an American academic and author.

Biography

Born to Jamaican parents in

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, New York, Glave grew up there and in

Kingston, Jamaica Kingston is the Capital (political), capital and largest city of Jamaica, located on the southeastern coast of the island. It faces a natural harbour protected by the Palisadoes, a long spit (landform), sand spit which connects the town of Por ...

. He earned a B.A. degree from

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in 1993 (

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, English and Latin American Studies) and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from

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in 1998. He is a member of the English faculty at

Binghamton University The State University of New York at Binghamton (Binghamton University or SUNY Binghamton) is a public university, public research university in Binghamton metropolitan area, Greater Binghamton, New York, United States. It is one of the four uni ...

, where he teaches creative writing and courses on

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, African-American, black British, postcolonial, and L.G.B.T./queer literatures, among other topics. Glave possesses dual Jamaican and U.S. citizenship. He is gay.

Awards

A two-time

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Fellow, Glave's early short story, "The Final Inning", originally published in ''

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'', won an O. Henry Award in 1997 while Glave was a graduate student at

. With this award, Glave became the second and only

gay ''Gay'' is a term that primarily refers to a homosexual person or the trait of being homosexual. The term originally meant 'carefree', 'cheerful', or 'bright and showy'. While scant usage referring to male homosexuality dates to the late ...

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writer, after

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, to have won an O. Henry Award. "The Final Inning" appears in Glave's first fiction collection, ''Whose Song? and Other Stories'', published by

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in 2000. Glave's essay collection ''Words to Our Now: Imagination and Dissent'' followed ''Whose Song?'' in 2005, and won a

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in 2006. Glave earned a second

in 2009 for his groundbreaking anthology, ''Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles'' (

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, 2008). ''The Torturer's Wife'', published by City Lights in 2008, was shortlisted and named a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Stonewall Book Award, the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, and the Lambda Literary Award. Glave has also earned a Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown Fellowship (1995–96) and a

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to Jamaica (1998–99). While in Jamaica that year, he worked on issues of social justice and helped found the Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, All-Sexuals, and Gays ( J-FLAG). In 2008, he was invited to

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to teach as the Martin Luther King Jr. Visiting Professor in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies. In 2009 he was named an ''Out'' Magazine "100" honoree. He has been a visiting fellow at Clare Hall,

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(2012–13), and

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Visiting Professor in the Department of Hispanic Studies at the

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(2014–15).

Publications

* * * * * * Glave, Thomas (2024). "Fires in Our Time" in ''Encounters with James Baldwin: Celebrating 100 Years''. London: Supernova Books.

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9781913641412

References

External links

Interview with Thomas Glave

Thomas Glave Papers
are held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library. {{DEFAULTSORT:Glave, Thomas Living people Jamaican non-fiction writers Jamaican male non-fiction writers American writers of Jamaican descent African-American LGBTQ people Brown University alumni Bowdoin College alumni American gay writers Jamaican LGBTQ writers Jamaican gay men LGBTQ people from New York (state) Lambda Literary Award winners 1964 births Binghamton University faculty