Background
Thomas Lux was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, son of a milkman and a Sears & Roebuck switchboard operator, neither of whom graduated from high school.
Thomas Lux was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, son of a milkman and a Sears & Roebuck switchboard operator, neither of whom graduated from high school.
Emerson College.
Lux was raised in Massachusetts on a dairy farm. He was, according to those who knew him in high school, very good at baseball, basketball and golf. Classmates also recall that he had a "terrific sense of humor." He graduated from Emerson College in Boston, where he was also poet in residence from 1970–1975.
His first book—Memory"s Handgrenade—was published shortly after.
In 1996 he was a visiting professor at University of California, Irvine. His poems are featured in American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets (2006) and many other anthologies.
He currently holds the Margaret T. and Henry C. Chair in Poetry at the Georgia Institute of Technology and runs their Poetry at Technical program, which includes one of the best known poetry reading series as well as community outreach classes and workshops.
Since 1975, Lux has been a member of the writing faculty at Sarah Lawrence College. Lux is also a core faculty member of the Warren Wilson Master of Fine Arts Program for Writers.
