Sally Thomas, as Micah Mattix recently observed, “is quietly establishing herself as one of our finest writers.” Her full-length volume of poetry, Motherland (2020),  was a finalist for the Able Muse Book Award. She is the author of the novel, Works of Mercy, the recent short story collection, The Blackbird and Other Stories, and the forthcoming volume of poetry, Among the Living: Poems.

Join us at Mercy Hall on Tuesday, February 4, 2025 at 7:30 pm for a poetry reading with Thomas, who will read poems from Motherland as well as from Among the Living: Poems. She will also share her thoughts on being a Catholic poet and fiction writer today.

As associate poetry editor for the New York Sun from 2022 to 2024, Thomas is co-founder, with Joseph Bottum, of the Poems Ancient and Modern Substack newsletter, for which she writes regularly. She lives with her family in North Carolina.

“Like Eudora Welty, Sally Thomas uses a small scale to great effect in The Blackbird and Other Stories, capturing the strange movements of the human heart with astonishing subtlety. It is one of the finest collections of short fiction in years, and Thomas is quietly establishing herself as one of our finest writers.” –Micah Mattix, Poetry Editor at First Things and Professor of English at Regent University

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