Jeffrey Thomson's second collection of poems, The Country of Lost Sons, inaugurated a new poetry series from Parlor Press at Purdue University in February 2004. His third book of poems, Renovation, was part of the Carnegie Mellon University Press poetry series in 2005. His first book, The Halo Brace, was brought out in a limited edition letterpress version from Birch Brook Press in 1998. His most recent book is an artist's book/short poem sequence called Blind Desire published by Dionysus Press. Printed in a limited edition in English and Braille and featuring the photographs of Dennis Marsico, Blind Desire is part of a trilogy of books published for the exhibit Messages and Communications at the Mattress Factory Museum in Pittsburgh.He has been awarded a 2005 Literature Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, a 2006 Pennsylvania Council for the Arts Individual Artists Fellowship, and won the Masters Poetry Contest and the Academy of American Poets Prize on three occasions. He has also been awarded a Tennessee Williams Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers Conference and a Writers @ Work fellowship for his poetry. He received his PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Missouri in 1996 and in 2005 became an assistant professor at the University of Maine's BFA in Creative Writing at Farmington.