Bio
Andrew was born and raised by a couple of hippies in a small Alabama town. And if that wasn't confusing enough, he joined the Navy and traveled all over Europe before relocating to Oakland, California. Married too young, he soon became a dad, got divorced and found a "real" job. Eventually he remarried and settled down in the Bay Area brackish waters known as Vacaville. These days, he is a sad man full of sad words that he sometimes shares in order to make you sad.
When he's not enjoying your tears, he's busy parenting two teenage boys, or professionally bullshitting for a living. He's the webmaster for various poets and small presses and a founding member of The Beast Crawl Literary Festival. His book, Strangeland, was the inaugural publication from Naked Bulb Press, even though he is generally unpublished due to laziness and fear. Unable to completely abandon his Southern roots, he still enjoys politeness, fried food, and whiskey.
Praise
for Strangland
Strangeland takes us through the births and deaths of a family, of relationships, the awkward moments during sex that no one wants to talk about, moments that are at times painfully self-consciousness, as he says approval being the one thing I seek more than you, oh how the reader can relate.
Strangeland lets loose a series of frank observations, vignettes, reflections, follies, and confessionals that carry you far enough into the poet's life to realize that you're also looking at your own.
I began to write something smarty-pants about masterfully crafted narrative... but I started crying and forgot.
~ Christine No
~ Richard Loranger
~ Cassandra Dallett
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Contact
For any inquiries, please feel free to contact me directly:
Tel: (408) 390-7395 | andrewjthomas@gmail.com
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