About the Author

Thomas Cotsonas was born in Rochester, New York and was educated at SUNY-Brockport, Syracuse University, and the University of Alabama. NOMINAL CASES, his first book of fiction, won the 2014 St. Lawrence Book Award and was published by Black Lawrence Press in 2016. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Web Conjunctions, Western Humanities Review, Construction, and other journals. He teaches creative writing in the Writers House at Rutgers-New Brunswick and lives in New York City.