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ABOUT THOMAS MCGUIRE ...image of Thomas McGuire

Thomas McGuire is a poet, translator, essayist, and literary critic. He was raised in Northern California (yellow-billed magpie country). Now he makes his home in Colorado (black-billed magpie range). Since 1995 he’s taught at the U.S. Air Force Academy, where he’s a Professor of English. He’s the Editor of War, Literature & the Arts. His creative and scholarly publications have appeared in journals and anthologies such as The North American Review, Best New Poets 2020, Zocalo Public Square, New Hibernia Review, Poetics for the More-Than-Human-World, The Ekphrastic Review, and Open-Eyed, Full-Throated: An Anthology of American/Irish Poets. In 2008, he was a Fulbright Scholar to Ireland. In 2014, he concluded a twenty-four-year Air Force career. He writes in the rain shadow of the mountain the Utes call Tava (Sun Mountain). Dark Devouring is his first collection.

Read about his new collection of poetry, Dark Devouring: Songs from Magpie & Sun Mountain .

 

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