Description
A native of Eastern Washington Thomas Aslin holds an MFA from the University of Montana where he studied with Richard Hugo and Madeline DeFrees. His publications include Sweet Smoke and A Moon Over Wings, which was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award in 2009. Aslin splits his time between Port Townsend and Seattle.
Recognition
“Thomas Aslin has written an outstanding collection of poems in Salvage and certainly laid claim to being one of the powerful voices of western American poetry in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. . . . Let us praise these poems the way these poems come to praise our lives and let us find the marvelous in front of us the way these poems lead us into the marvel of living.”–Jeff Knorr, Valparaiso Poetry Review