Gail Thomas most recent books of poetry are Trail of Roots, a chapbook which won the A.V. Christie Series (Seven Kitchens Press) and the full-length collection Leaving Paradise (Human Error Publishing). Her other books are Odd Mercy (Headmistress, 2016), Waving Back (Turning Point, 2015), No Simple Wilderness: An Elegy for Swift River Valley (Haleys, 2001) and Finding the Bear (Perugia Press, 1997).
Waving Back was named a Must Read for 2016 by the Massachusetts Center for the Book, and Honorable Mention at the New England Book Festival. Odd Mercy was chosen by Ellen Bass for the 2016 Charlotte Mew Prize of Headmistress Press. At the center of Odd Mercy is "The Little Mommy Sonnets", awarded Honorable Mention in the Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Contest for Traditional Verse. Her poem "Wisteria" won the Naugatuck River Review Narrative Poetry Prize.
