About

Thomas Renjilian is a fiction writer and poet from Scranton, Pennsylvania. A graduate of Vassar College, he holds an MFA from Oregon State University and PhD in Literature & Creative Writing from the University of Southern California. His stories and poems appear or are forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast, The Missouri Review, Denver Quarterly, Electric Literature, and other publications. A former managing editor of Ricochet Editions and editor-in-chief of Gold Line Press, he currently edits fiction for Joyland Magazine. His creative and scholarly work have received fellowship support from The NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and Yale’s Beinecke Library. He lives in Los Angeles.

Thomas is represented by Ayla Zuraw-Friedland at Frances Goldin Literary Agency