Thomas Lynch
Thomas Lynch was born in 1948 in Detroit, Michigan.
He is the author of five collections of poetry: Skating with Heather Grace (Alfred A. Knopf, 1986), Grimalkin & Other Poems (Cape Poetry: 1994), Still Life in Milford (W.W. Norton & Company, August 1998, November 1999), Walking Papers (W.W. Norton, February 2010), The Sin-Eater: A Breviary (Paraclete Press of Brewster, MA: September, 2011).
A funeral director as well as a poet, Lynch's work has been the subject of film documentaries, including PBS Frontline's "The Undertaking," which won the 2008 Emmy Award for Arts and Culture Documentary.
Lynch is the recipient of grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Michigan Council for the Arts, the Michigan Library Association, the Writers Voice Project, and the National Book Foundation.
He has taught with the Department of Mortuary Science at Wayne State University in Detroit, with the graduate program in writing at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and with the Candler School of Theology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.
He lives in Milford, Michigan.
