Thomas Newkirk is the bestselling author of Minds Made for Stories along with numerous other Heinemann titles, including Writing Unbound, Embarrassment, The Art of Slow Reading, The Performance of Self in
Student Writing (winner of the NCTE’s David H. Russell Award), and Misreading
Masculinity. He taught writing at the University of New Hampshire for
thirty-nine years, and founded the New Hampshire Literacy Institutes, a summer
program for teachers. In addition to working as a teacher, writer, and editor,
he has served as the chair of his local school board for seven years.
