Bio
Place is an important component of J. Thomas Brown's writing, whether that world no longer exists, or may come into existence in the future. His father had the wanderlust and moved his family up and down the American East Coast, to Sweden and England, and back and forth in between.
J. Thomas Brown's short story, Breaking Them with Words, appeared in Scarlet Leaf Review and Everywhere Stories: Short Fiction from a Small Planet. A memoir, Valium Dream, was a finalist in Streetlight Magazine's Memoir/Essay Contest 2021. Two creative nonfiction stories, Hard Cider and Thumbtacks, were published in Journal of the Virginia Writers Club Spring 2021 and Summer 2021. He is a contributor to Lingering in the Margins: A River City Poets Anthology, North of Oxford, Rising Voices: Poems Towards a Social Justice Revolution (Poetry, Healing, & Growth Book Series by University Professors Press). Poems and hybrid work have appeared in New Verse News, Rattlecast, Copperfield Review Quarterly, Wild Roof Journal, and numerous poems in Moonstone Arts Center anthologies.
Additional works include a historical fiction novel, Land of Three Houses (Austin Macauley, 2018), a silk road fantasy novel, The Hole in the Bone (Fenghuang Publishing, 2018), Mooncalf, a poetry collection in print and ebook, (Fenghuang Publishing, 2019), and Mooncalf audiobook (Authors Republic, 2019). Driving With Poppi: A Patrimoir and Saint Elmos Light: Collected Short Stories were released in 2021 by Fenghuang Publishing.