Sally Thomas

Sally Thomas is the author of a poetry collection, Motherland, a finalist for the 2018 Able Muse Book Award and published by Able Muse Press in 2020. She is also the author of a novel, Works of Mercy, published by Wiseblood Books in 2022, and a short-story collection, The Blackbird & Other Stories, also from Wiseblood Books and published in 2024. Over the last three decades, her poetry, fiction, reviews, and essays have appeared in such journals as First Things, National Review, Plough Quarterly, Public Discourse, and the New Yorker. She is a founding contributor to the Substack news letter Poems Ancient and Modern, publishing a classic poem with commentary every weekday.