Jeffrey Thomson
Birdwatching in Wartime by Maine poet Jeffrey Thomson

Jeffrey Thomson

Jeffrey Thomson is the author of four books of poems, including Birdwatching in Wartime, winner of both the 2010 Maine Literary Award for Poetry and the 2011 ASLE Award in Environmental Creative Writing, and Renovation. Birdwatching in Wartime is currently being translated into Spanish and Russian. His translations of the Roman poet, Catullus, are forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.

In 2012, Thomson  was the Fulbright Distinguished Scholar in Creative Writing at the Seamus Heaney Poetry Centre at Queen’s University Belfast. Currently, he is an associate professor of creative writing at the University of Maine Farmington.