Thomas O'Malley (writer)
Encyclopedia
Life
He grew up in Ireland and England, but was educated in the United States. He attended the University of MassachusettsUniversity of Massachusetts
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at Boston, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop
Iowa Writers' Workshop
The Program in Creative Writing, more commonly known as the Iowa Writers' Workshop, at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, is a highly regarded graduate-level creative writing program in the United States...
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In 2006, he read at Amherst College
Amherst College
Amherst College is a private liberal arts college located in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Amherst is an exclusively undergraduate four-year institution and enrolled 1,744 students in the fall of 2009...
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He teaches at Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...
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In 2007, he was selected by the Literary Ventures Fund.
Works
- In the Provence of Saints, (Little Brown, & Co., 2005)
- "Resurrection Men" anthologized in A Fictional History of the United States With Huge Chunks Missing, (Akashic Books, 2006).
- “Night Slides Falling to Light,” anthologized in Where Love Is Found: 24 Tales of Connection, (Washington Square Press, 2006)
Reviews
Publishers Weekly:his sentences have a judicious clarity even as they twist into gnarled shapes; they carry O'Malley's characters though their incomprehension with poise and assurance.