James Thomas (professor)


James Thomas is the founding editor of Quarterly West and the author of Pictures, Moving, a collection of stories. For his fiction he has received two N.E.A. Fellowships, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, and a James Michener Fellowship. He teaches fiction writing at the University of Utah, and is the director of Writers at Work, a summer writers conference. James Thomas has published as editor with his colleague Robert Shapard a number of short-short story, flash fiction and new sudden fiction anthologies.