Born in Guthrie, Oklahoma, poet and musician T.J. Anderson III is the author of Devonte Travels the Sorry Route (Omnidawn Press, 2019), Cairo Workbook (Willow Books, 2014), River to Cross (The Backwaters Press, 2009), Notes to Make the Sound Come Right: Four Innovators of Jazz Poetry (University of Arkansas Press, 2004), Blood Octave (Flat Five Recordings, 2006), and the chapbook At Last Round Up (lift books, 1996). A former Fulbright Scholar at Cairo University, he teaches at Hollins University.
While at MacDowell drafted poems for his fifth book, The Lynchburg Project, a collection of various texts exploring his indigenous and African American ancestry in Virginia, and completed a full length poetry manuscript, Glimpsed, Angelic.
