Sally Thomas's poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared in Dappled Things, First Things, Kindred, Modern Age, Relief: A Journal of Art and Faith, Ruminate, The Lost Country, The New Yorker, The Sonora Review, Quarterly West, and many other journals. Her work has been cited for Honorable Mention in Ruminate's Janet McCabe Poetry Prize competition, and for an Editor's Choice Award in Fiction at Relief Journal. Her poetry manuscript Never Out of the Sky was shortlisted for the Jacopone da Todi Poetry Prize from Franciscan University Press. She lives in North Carolina with her husband and their two youngest children.