Thomas Locicero is an award-winning poet, short story writer, and essayist, as well as a playwright and monologist. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in 50 Haikus, Abyss & Apex, Adelaide Literary Magazine, Antarctica Journal, Baseball Bard, Better Than Starbucks, Bindweed Magazine, Birmingham Arts Journal, BoomerLitMag, Boston Literary Magazine, Brook Spring, Brushfire Literature & Arts Journal, Clockwise Cat, Dragon Poet Review, Dual Coast Magazine, Empty Mirror, Eunoia Review, felan, Fine Lines, Haiku Journal, Heartland, Hobart, Indigo Lit, Inwood Indiana, Jazz Cigarette, Kestrel, Lit.cat, Loch Raven Review, Long Island Quarterly, Montana Mouthful, Mused—the BellaOnline Literary Review, New Thoreau Quarterly, Omnibus Arts & Literature Magazine, petrichor, Poetry Bay, Poetry Pacific, Poetry Quarterly, Ponder Review, Quail Bell Magazine, Rat’s Ass Review, Red Savina Review, riverrun, Roanoke Review, Saw Palm, Scarlet Leaf Review, Snapdragon, Spectator & Spooks, Speculative 66, Sunset Liminal, Tanka Journal, The Avocet, The Beatnik Cowboy, The Daily Drunk, The Ghazal Page, The Good Men Project, The Pangolin Review, The Poet’s Haven, The Satirist, The Skinny Poetry Journal, The Wordsmith Journal Magazine, The Write Launch, Tipton Poetry Journal, VerseWrights, vox poetica, WORK Literary Magazine, among other journals. Participated in the 30/30 Project, Tupelo Press, July 2022 and July 2023. Originally from East Islip, Long Island, Thomas resides with his wife, Lil, and their sons, Sam and Ben, in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.