Sally Thomas

Sally Thomas is a poet and fiction writer whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, First Things, the New Republic, Plough Quarterly, Public Discourse, and Southern Poetry Review. Her novel, Works of Mercy, was published in 2022, and a new collection of short stories, The Blackbird and Other Stories, is forthcoming from Wiseblood Books. You can also sign up for her Substack, Poems Ancient and Modern.

Posts by Sally Thomas

November 11, 2025

Twelfth Night Revels, Revelations, and the Death of Rabelais

In the Christian calendar, the Feast of the Epiphany marks the coming of the Magi, whose journey signals the first revelation of the Incarnation to the wider world. With Epiphany, the days of Christmas end, though the afterglow of the Nativity lingers until Candlemas, on February 2: the feast of the presentation of the Christ Child in the temple, when the Church recalls another recognition. Continue Reading...
March 25, 2025

Flannery O’Connor at 100

It’s jarring, maybe, to think of Flannery O’Connor as an old lady. Then again, to our eyes, in photographs from the last years of her life, maybe she looks already old. Continue Reading...