Thomas Lynch

Monday March 22 and Tuesday March 23, Talks 10:00am; Monday March 22 Talk at 2:15; Tuesday March 23 Reading at 2:15, Student Commons

Thomas Lynch’s work has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Paris Review, Harper's, Esquire, Newsweek, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The L.A. Times, The Irish Times, and The Times of London. His commentaries have been recorded and broadcasted by BBC Radio, RTE in Ireland and NPR. He is the recipient of grants and awards from The National Endowment for the Arts, The Michigan Council for the Arts, The Michigan Library Association, The Writers Voice Project, The National Book Foundation, The Arvon Foundation in Great Britain and The Irish Arts Council.

He has read and lectured at universities and literary centers throughout Europe, The United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and across the United States. He is a regular presenter to professional conferences of funeral directors, hospice and medical ethics professionals, clergy, educators and businss leaders. He is an Adjunct Professor in the graduate creative writing program at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has appeared on C-SPAN, MSNBC, The Today Show, and the PBS-Bill Moyers Series, On Our Own Terms. He lives in Milford, Michigan where, for the past twenty-five years, he has been the funeral director, and in West Clare, where he keeps an ancestral cottage.
His collection of essays, Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality has been selected to be the common reader for Winter 2010 at KVCC.

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