Tony Tost

Tony Tost
Born 1975
Springfield, Missouri
Nationality American
Alma mater Green River Community College,
College of the Ozarks,
University of Arkansas
Genre Poetry

Tony Tost (born 1975) is an American poet, critic and screenwriter. His first poetry book Invisible Bride won the 2003 Walt Whitman Award judged by C.D. Wright.[1]

Early Life

Tost was born in Springfield, Missouri, and raised in Enumclaw, Washington. He is a graduate of both Green River Community College in Auburn, Washington and College of the Ozarks in Point Lookout, Missouri. Tost graduated with a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Arkansas.[2] He also holds a Ph.D. in English from Duke University.[3]

Career

He is the founding editor of the online poetry magazine Fascicle and previously a co-editor and co-founder, with Zachary Schomburg, of Octopus Magazine. His poems and essays have appeared in the literary journals Fence, Hambone, Talisman, Mandorla, No: a journal of the arts, Denver Quarterly, Typo, American Literature, Jacket, Verse, Open Letter and elsewhere.[4]

In 2011, Tost's book on Johnny Cash's American Recordings was published by Continuum Books in their 33 1/3 series on classic albums. Critic Joshua Scheiderman wrote that Tost's book "ultimately belongs in the long, rich tradition of texts like Constance Rourke’s American Humor: A Study of the National Character (1931) and Greil Marcus’s The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan’s Basement Tapes (1997), ostensibly academic studies of American culture but also works of mythopoesis in their own right."[5]

Tost is the creator, executive producer, and showrunner of Damnation, which debuted October 2017 on USA Network and on Netflix outside the US.[6] Before that, Tost was a writer and producer on five seasons (out of six) of the A&E and later Netflix television series Longmire.[7] He currently lives in Los Angeles, California.

Bibliography

  • Invisible Bride (2004)
  • World Jelly (2005)
  • Complex Sleep (2007)
  • Johnny Cash's American Recordings (criticism, 2011)

References

  1. ↑ Walt Whitman Award Web page Archived 2009-07-07 at the Wayback Machine. from the Academy of American Poets Web site
  2. ↑ Academy of American Poets Web site: Tony Tost Exhibit/author page, accessed November 17, 2006
  3. ↑ Interview with Lisa Horan at Creative Screenwriting
  4. ↑ Author bio at Brown University
  5. ↑ A Review of Johnny Cash's American Recordings by Tony Tost at Neo-Americanist: an inter-disciplinary online journal for the study of America
  6. ↑ Tost at IMDB
  7. ↑ Tony Tost at IMDB
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