Randolph ThomasRandolph Thomas grew up in western Virginia and attended Radford University and the University of Arkansas, where he received an MFA in Creative Writing. He is the author of THE DEEPEST ROOMS (Silverfish Review Press, 2015), winner of the Gerald Cabl Award, DISPENSATIONS (New Rivers Press, 2014), and Dispensations, a short story collection and winner of the Many Voices Project Award.His fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train Stories, The Hudson Review, The Southwest Review, and The Florida Review and has won the Glimmer Train Stories Family Matters Award, the John Gardner Memorial Award, The Blue Mesa Review Award, and the Florida Review Editors Prize. Also a singer, songwriter, and guitarist, he has performed solo and in rock and roll and folk bands in Virginia, Arkansas, and Louisiana. He teaches at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. Read More Read Less