author of The Deepest Rooms
11:00 AM on Saturday, October 24
Randolph Thomas won the Gerard Cable Award for his debut collection of poems The Deepest Rooms. These finely crafted narratives weave together multiple perspectives to create a family history and survey the Southern landscape from Thomas’s native Virginia to Baton Rouge, where he now teaches writing at Louisiana State University. Thomas is also the author of the story collection, Dispensations, which won the Many Voices Project Award.