Thomas Glave was born in the Bronx and grew up there and in Kingston, Jamaica. A graduate of Bowdoin College and Brown University, he traveled as a Fulbright Scholar to Jamaica, where he studied Jamaican historiography and Caribbean intellectual and literary traditions and helped found the Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, All-Sexuals, and Gays (J-FLAG). His books include the Lambda Literary Award-winning Words to Our Now: Imagination and Dissent, Whose Song? And Other Stories, and he is editor of the forthcoming anthology Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles.
