Stephen Thomas

STEPHEN THOMAS is a Toronto-based writer of fiction, nonfiction, plays, and Facebook statuses. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including Hazlitt, Playboy, The Atlantic's CityLab blog, DIAGRAM, Little Brother, The Sneca Review, The Fanzine, The Puritan, and Definitely Not the Opera (CBC-Radio One). He has been awarded a Truman Capote Scholarship, an Edward F. Albee Fellowship (Summer 2012), has been nominated for the Journey Prize (2010, 2013), a National Magazine Award (2015), and Best American Experimental Writing (2015). The Jokes was shortlisted for the Metatron Prize for Rising Authors of Contemporary Literature, and is Thomas's debut flash-fiction collection.