THOMAS PIERCE
Thomas Pierce
b. South Carolina, 1982.

Thomas is the author of a novel, The Afterlives, and a short story collection, Hall of Small Mammals, for which he was honored with the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 Award.  He holds an MFA from the University of Virginia, where he was a Poe/Faulkner Fellow.  His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Zoetrope, The Oxford American, and Virginia Quarterly Review and been anthologized in The Best American Non-Required Reading and O. Henry Prize Stories.  He has reported for NPR and National Geographic Magazine.  Along with his wife and daughters, he currently lives in Charlottesville, VA, where he is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Virginia.
Selected Published Work:
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​Books:
The Afterlives: A Novel (Riverhead 2018)
Hall of Small Mammals (Riverhead 2015)

Stories:
"Little Eye" in Zoetrope (2021)
"Downstream" in Zoetrope (2020)
​"Visitors Welcome" in Granta (2019)
"Swarm Intelligence" in Zoetrope (2018)
"Tardy Man" in The New Yorker (2018)
"The Stephanies" in The Oxford American (2018)
"Chairman Spaceman" in The New Yorker (2017)
"The Immortal Milkshake" in Zoetrope (2016)
"Two Bananas" in Subtropics (2016)
"A Rogue Planet" in Masters Review (2016)
"Tarantella" in Zoetrope (2015)
"This Is an Alert" in The New Yorker (2015)
"Ba Baboon" in The New Yorker (2014)
"Felix Not Arriving" in Virginia Quarterly Review (2014)
"Time to Get Radical" in Gigantic (2013)
"Why We Ate Mud" in The Oxford American (2013)
"The Real Alan Gass" in Subtropics (2013)
"The Critics" in The Atlantic Monthly (2013)
"Shirley Temple Three" in The New Yorker (2012)
"The Grasshopper Kings" in The Missouri Review (2011)





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