Thom Ward is an editor for BOA Editions, Ltd., an independent publishing house of American poetry and poetry in translation. Ward’s poetry collections include Various Orbits (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2004) and Small Boat with Oars of Different Size (Carnegie Mellon, 2000). Ward’s poetry chapbook, Tumblekid, the winner of the 1998 Devil’s Millhopper Poetry Contest, was published by the University South Carolina-Aiken. His collection of prose poems, The Matter of the Casket, was published by CustomWords in May, 2007. He teaches creative writing workshops at universities, and tutors individual students. Ward lives in Upstate, New York.