St. Louis Poetry Center

Troy Jollimore

Troy Jollimore’s first book, Tom Thomson in Purgatory, won the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry.  A native of Nova Scotia, Canada, he holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Princeton University and currently teaches in the Philosophy Department at California State University, Chico.  His poems have appeared or are forth coming in publications including Ploughshares, The Believer, MARGIE, and PRISM International, and have been used as lyrics by the band, His Luscious Uncle.