Bio

Thad Nodine is the author of Touch and Go (Unbridled), which won the Dana Award for the Novel and was called “one of the year’s finest fiction debuts” by Publisher’s Weekly. He is former fiction editor at Quarry West magazine and has taught creative writing and literature at UC Santa Cruz and Seinan Gakuin University in Japan. He is the inaugural winner of the Bookshop Santa Cruz residency at the Wellstone Center in the Redwoods, as well as residencies at Sandy Bend by Red Mountain Press and at ArtMill in the Czech Republic. He has published widely in education, where he specializes in policies that help students achieve their education and career goals, particularly first-generation college students, those from low-income families, and students of color. He has a B.A. in politics and a Ph.D. in literature.