Thomas Lux, winner of the 2012 Robert Creeley Poetry Award, was born in Northampton, Massachusetts. He was educated at Emerson College and The University of Iowa. His most recent books include God Particles: Poems (Houghton Mifflin, 2008); The Cradle Place (2004); The Street of Clocks(2001); New and Selected Poems, 1975-1995 (1997), which was a finalist for the 1998 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize; The Blind Swimmer: Selected Early Poems, 1970-1975 (1996); Split Horizon (1994), for which he received the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award; Pecked to Death by Swans (1993); and A Boat in the Forest (1992).
Lux has been the poet in residence at Emerson College (1972-1975), and a member of the Writing Faculty at Sarah Lawrence College and the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. He has also taught at the Universities of Iowa, Michigan, and California at Irvine, among others. He has been a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award in Poetry and has received three National Endowment for the Arts grants and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He currently holds the Bourne Chair in poetry at the Georgia Institute of Technology.