Thomas Burke is the author of the collection Where Is Home (Fithian Press 2005). His work has been published in reviews including The James White Review, Harrington Gay Men’s Fiction Quarterly, The Chiron Review, and the Evergreen Chronicles; and in anthologies including Queer and Catholic (Routledge, 2008). He is Assistant Professor of Social and Cultural [...]

At the age of twelve I developed a profound crush on a long dead Victorian consumptive. His name was Gerard Manley Hopkins.