Thomas Fox Averill

Fiction Writer

Topeka, KS
Kansas US
Email: 
tom.averill@washburn.edu
Website: 
www.washburn.edu/cas/english/tav…

Author's Bio

I am a novelist, short story writer and regular commentator on Kansas Public Radio in the character of the fictional William Jennings Bryan Oleander. I am passionate about food, gardening, all things Scot and the state of Kansas and the Great Plains.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Virtually Now (Persea, 1996)
,
Show Me a Hero (Persea, 1995)
,
O. Henry Award (Doubleday, 1991)
,
The Best of the West #4 (W. W. Norton & Company, 1991)
Books:
A Carol Dickens Christmas (University of New Mexico Press, 2014)
,
rode (University of New Mexico Press, 2011)
,
Ordinary Genius (University of Nebraska Press, 2005)
,
The Slow Air of Ewan MacPherson (Blue Hen, 2003)
,
Secrets of the Tsil Café (Blue Hen, 2001)
Journals:
Cimarron Review
,
Cottonwood Review
,
DoubleTake
,
Greensboro Review
,
North American Review
Prizes won: 

O.Henry Award.
Governor's Arts Award, State of Kansas.
Edgar Wolfe Award, Kansas City, Kanas, Public Library.
Finalist, International Culinary Professionals competition for food literature for Secrets of the Tsil Cafe.

Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now: 
A Sandhills Ballad by Ladette Randolph, The Beatles by Bob Spitz, Deaf Sentence by David Lodge, Dear Darkness by Kevin Young, Mr. Pipp by Lloyd Jones

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
White, Scotch-Irish American
Prefers to work with: 
Any, Teachers
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Berkeley
Raised in: 
Topeka, KS
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Last update: Aug 21, 2016