Jeffrey Thomson is a poet, memoirist, translator, and editor, and is the author of multiple books including the memoir fragile (Red Mountain Press, 2015), The Belfast Notebooks (Salmon Poetry, 2017), The Complete Poems of Catullus (Cambridge University Press, 2015), and the edited collection From the Fishouse (Persea, 2009). Half/Life: New and Selected Poems comes out from Alice James Books in 2019. He has been an NEA Fellow, the Fulbright Distinguished Scholar in Creative Writing at the Seamus Heaney Poetry Centre at Queen’s University Belfast, and the Hodson Trust-John Carter Brown Fellow at Brown University. He is currently professor of creative writing at the University of Maine Farmington.