Danilo John Thomas is the author of the chapbooks The Hand Implements, published by The Cupboard Pamphlet, and Murk, fine letterpress printed by book artist AB Gorham (abgorham.com). His fiction has won the Ryan R. Gibbs Flash Fiction Award from New Delta Review. Born and raised in southwestern Montana, he is proud to have worked in the construction, service, and higher education industires from Butte to Tallahassee and back. He has a PhD in Creative Writing from Florida State University and and MFA from the University of Alabama. He manages Baobab Press (baobabpress.com) in Reno, Nevada where he lives with his wife and two daughters.