Thomas Devaney {Philadelphia
Training Camp for Expression Skills} is poet and
teacher. His forthcoming collection of poetry is A Series of Small Boxes, published
by Fish Drum Press. In the summer of 2006 he hosted a night of storytelling
at the ICA called “Tales from the 215” and in 2004 he conducted
a series of tours of the Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site called "The
Empty House" for the ICA’S show "The Big Nothing." He is
currently a Penn Senior Writing Fellow in the English Department at the University
of Pennsylvania.