Dan Thompson
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Dan Thompson

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Daniel (A.D.) Thompson has twenty years experience living, teaching, and writing around the world. Thompson studied at the Sorbonne and earned a Masters while teaching on the Navajo Nation. Thompson served in Americorps at a shelter for Latino immigrants and in Peace Corps in the mud hut village of Kiro near Timbuktu, Mali. His book Notes from the Interior about his Saharan experience is currently in edits. Thompson has taught at numerous universities including SUNY Binghamton, Rice University, Suzhou Daxue, and Thammasat University in Bangkok. He also designed a curriculum for Berkeley GTU called Listenaries. When not teaching, Thompson works with refugees and other displaced people, most recently at a women's shelter in New Orleans. Thompson wrote about managing the night shift in the arena shelter at the Rivercenter during Hurricane Katrina/Rita in the unpublished book Shoot the Wind. Thompson has written for Writers Across Borders, Travelling Poet's Society, World Wise Schools, New Asian Writing, as well as for numerous international publications, including translations for Language and Culture Review, and was a finalist on United Planet. Thompson has also had writings included in international anthologies such as Rage of a New Ancestor and Mr. Chang's Coffee Pot.
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