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Thomas Lynch is a writer and a funeral director. His collections of poems include Skating with Heather Grace, Grimalkin & Other Poems, and Still Life in Milford. The Undertaking, his first book of nonfiction won The American Book Award, The Heartland Prize for Nonfiction and was a finalist for the National Book Award. It is published in eight languages. Bodies in Motion and at Rest won the Great Lakes Book Award and Booking Passage, was named a 2006 Notable Book by the Library of Michigan. A book of short stories, Apparition and Late Fictions, and a new collection of poems, Walking Papers, will be published in 2010.
His work has appeared in Harper’s, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Granta, Newsweek, Esquire, The New York Times, The Times of London and The Irish Times and has been broadcast by NPR, the BBC and RTE in Ireland. The PBS/Frontline film, “The Undertaking,” based on his book and broadcast nationwide in October, 2007 won the 2008 Emmy Award for Arts & Culture Documentary. The Irish filmmaker, Cathal Black’s documentary, “Learning Gravity,” filmed in Michigan and West Clare, follows the tributaries of Lynch’s poems and essays.
Thomas Lynch has read and lectured across the US, throughout Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand and is an adjunct professor with the Graduate Creative Writing Program at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He lives in Milford, Michigan where he has been the funeral director since 1974, and in Moveen, Co. Clare, Ireland where he keeps an ancestral cottage. |
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