Jeffrey Thomson is the author of the memoir fragile and five books of poems, including his most recent, The Belfast Notebooks. His collection Birdwatching in Wartime won the ASLE award for creative writing and the Maine Book Award in poetry. Half/Life: New and Selected Poems is forthcoming from Alice James Books. In 2012 Thomson was the Fulbright Distinguished Scholar in Creative Writing at Queens University Belfast. He teaches creative writing at University of Maine at Farmington. (updated 9/2017)