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Wayne ThomasAssistant Professor of English/Journalism
Office: Virginia 304 Wayne Thomas worked professionally as a print journalist for two years in southeast Georgia. He began his career as a beat reporter at the Vidalia Advance and climbed to the rank of Managing Editor of SunFire News at age 23. As a contributing writer and editor, he won several awards in the Georgia Press Association’s Better Newspaper Contest, including first places for Local News Coverage, Hard News Writing, and Lifestyle Coverage and second place for Sports Section. Professor Thomas earned his BA in Theatre History and Literary Criticism at Georgia College. He continued his studies in Milledgeville and earned a MFA in Creative Writing with an emphasis in Scriptwriting. He went on to study at West Virginia University, earning a second Creative Writing MFA but with an emphasis in Fiction and Nonfiction. He has worked as Managing Editor and Assistant Drama Editor of Arts & Letters: Journal of Contemporary Culture and currently serves as Fiction Editor of The Cortland Review. Professor Thomas’s essays, stories, and plays have been seen in several literary journals and anthologies, including Sudden Stories: The Mammoth Book of Miniscule Fiction and River Teeth. He is currently working to finish up his first book, Their Majesties’ Son, a collection of memoir essays. |
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