Tom Simmons is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Iowa. Tom held a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in poetry at Stanford University, has written nonfiction and translation, and since 1991 Tom has published four books of nonfiction: "The Unseen Shore" (Beacon Press, 1991); "A Season in the Air" (Fawcett Columbine, 1993); "Erotic Reckonings: Mastery and Apprenticeship in the Work of Poets and Lovers" (University of Illinois Press, 1994); and "Ghost Man: Reflections on Evolution, Love, and Loss" (1stBooks Publishers, 2001).
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