Thomas Lynch is the author of three collections of poems Skating with Heather Grace, Grimalkin & Other Poems, and Still Life in Milford, and two books of essays: The Undertaking, which won an American Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award. His most recent work, Bodies At Motion and At Rest, is a further exploration of what Lynch describes as the "literary and mortuary arts." Thomas Lynch has been named Michigan Author of the Year by the Michigan Library Association. Lynch lives and works in Milford, Michigan, and in West Clare, Ireland, where he keeps an ancestral cottage.