Bio and Contact
EMAIL ME at: tmaltman@gmail.com for publicity materials, questions, or conversations about books. (You can copy that link into an email to reach me.)
My publicist at Soho Books is Alexa Wejko. She can be reached at awejko@sohopress.com
Bio:
Thomas Maltman’s first novel, The Night Birds, won an Alex Award, a Spur Award, and the Friends of American Writers Literary Award. In 2009 the American Library Association chose The Night Birds as an “Outstanding Book for the College Bound.” Little Wolves, his second novel, was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award and won the All Iowa Reads selection in 2014. He teaches at Normandale Community College and lives in the Twin Cities area with his wife, a Lutheran pastor, and his three daughters. His third novel, The Land, was published by Soho Press in October, 2020.
Contact:
Please email me at tmaltman@gmail.com
Interviews and Feature Pieces:
- Interview with Steve Usery at Mysterypod about Little Wolves
- “Thomas Maltman’s Dreams Become Fiction” feature with Amy Goetzman at MINNPOST
- Little Wolves Music Playlist and Book Notes at Largehearted Boy
- “Six Questions We Always Ask” at Minnesota Reads
- “The Page 69 Test” and “Writers Read” at Campaign for the American Reader
- Interview with Field Tiger Press
- My advice on using Mythic Structure at Writer’s Digest Blog with Chuck Sambuchino
Older Interviews about The Night Birds:
A Few of My Favorite Things:
Books on Writing
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, Stephen King
Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott
Making Shapely Fiction, Jerome Stern
The Art of Fiction, John Gardner
The Triggering Town, Richard Hugo
Poetry Home Repair Manual, Ted Kooser
Aspects of the Novel, E.M. Forster
The Writer’s Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers, Christopher Vogler
Novels
The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
So Long, See You Tomorrow, William Maxwell
Dune, Frank Herbert
The King Must Die, Mary Renault
Walk Two Moons, Sharon Creech
Staggerford, Jon Hassler
Giants in the Earth, O.E. Rolvaag
Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson
Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Grendel, John Gardner
The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman
My Antonia, Willa Cather
Wicked, Gregory Maguire
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card
All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
Watership Down, Richard Adams
The Book of Lost Things, John Connolly
Farenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
Vision Quest, Terry Davis
Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K LeGuin
The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
Plainsong, Kent Haruf
Short Fiction
Erratics, Roger Hart
The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien
Light at the Crossing, Kent Meyers
The Best Stories of Anton Chekov
A Good Man is Hard to Find, Flannery O’Connor
Magic for Beginners, Kelly Link
Graveyard of the Atlantic, Alyson Hagy
Music of the Inner Lakes, Roger Sheffer
Anything by Alice Munro
Nonfiction
The Summer of Ordinary Ways, Nicole Helget
In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
The Life You Save May Be Your Own, Paul Elie
Population 485, Michael Perry
The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell
The Seven Storey Mountain, Thomas Merton
Poets and Favorite Poems
Dylan Thomas “Fern Hill”
Nance Van Winckel “Bad Girl with Hawk”
Rainer Maria Rilke “For the Sake of a Single Poem”
Mary Oliver “In the Pinewoods, Crows and Owl”
Tony Hoagland “Self Improvement”
Richard Robbins “Famous Persons We Have Known”
Ted Kooser “Pearl”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning “Sonnet XXII”
Gwen Hart “Anniversary”
Shel Silverstein “They’ve put a Brassiere on the Camel”
William Butler Yeats “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death”
Richard Wilbur “Love Calls Us to the Things of This World”
Sharon Olds “Size and Sheer Will”
Stephen Dobyns “Black Dog, Red Dog”
Li-Young Lee “The Gift”
W.S. Merwin “For the Anniversary of my Death”
ee cummings “somewhere I have never traveled gladly beyond”
Elizabeth Bishop “The Moose”
James Wright “A Blessing”
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