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Tom Gatten
Tom Gatten’s fiction has appeared in such publications as Art and Literature (Lausanne), The Quest (New York), and Tales, formerly Fiction Midwest (St. Louis). His poems have appea...view moreTom Gatten’s fiction has appeared in such publications as Art and Literature (Lausanne), The Quest (New York), and Tales, formerly Fiction Midwest (St. Louis). His poems have appeared in numerous publications and have been anthologized in The Sumac Reader (The Michigan State University Press, East Lansing), and Earth, Air, Fire & Water (Coward, McCann & Geohegan, New York, and Longmans Canada Limited, Toronto). His book of poems and translations, Mapper of Mists, includes the Spanish of Rafael Alberti. His novel The Kojo Hand was published in 2001.
Tom Gatten was born in north central Nebraska and grew up in southwestern Michigan. While a grad student in Comparative Literature at Michigan State University, he played for two years with the Bamboushay Steel Band. In 1962 National Educational Television produced and broadcast a half-hour show by the band. The band’s Folkways Records LP Album #FS3835 was reissued on Compact Disc by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings in 2001 and is also available on iTunes. After Michigan State, Gatten went to the University of Iowa, where he earned an M.F.A. His college teaching credits include Stony Brook University, Lincoln Land Community College, The University of Hartford, and Penn State.
For thirteen years he headed the Division of Management Information Services at the State of Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities and later became lead analyst for the Connecticut Department of Transportation Division of Graphic Systems, a position he held for five years.
He lives in North Carolina with his wife.view less
Books by Tom Gatten
Catching a Story by the Tale: Tips on Getting Started for Beginning Fiction Writers and New Teachers of Creative Writing The Kojo Hand Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings