Danilo Thomas

Danilo Thomas attends the PhD program in Creative Writing at Florida State University. Raised in southwest Missouri, he received his MFA in fiction at the University of Alabama where he was fiction editor of Black Warrior Review. He has taught in Alabama’s maximum security prisons through the Alabama Pris Arts+ Education Project. His chapbook MURK was published by book artist AB Gorham. He has been a finalist for the Italo Calvino Prize in fiction and published in Sleepingfish, apt, Moon City Review, Bull and Juked. "Torque and Slippage" is runner-up for the 2014 Bevel Summers Contest.