Rea, Tom

1950 -

Casper, WY
www.tomrea.net
Natrona County

Biographical and Professional Information

Tom Rea is a freelance writer and editor living in Casper. He received an MFA in creative writing from the University of Montana and has served as Writer-in-Residence for the Wyoming Arts Council, before working for many years as a reporter and editor on the Casper Star-Tribune. He is the author of several books about Wyoming, including Bone Wars: The Excavation and Celebrity of Andrew Carnegie's Dinosaur, and Devil’s Gate: Owning the Land, Owning the Story, a history of Independence Rock, Devil’s Gate and Martin’s Cove, published last year by the University of Oklahoma Press. Currently he's writing up a series of 28 episodes in Wyoming history for the American History Cowboy Coalition, a federally funded Teaching American History grant program at the Natrona County School District.

Genres

History
Nonfiction
Poetry
Wyoming Subjects

Titles

Bone Wars: The excavation and celebrity of Andrew Carnegie's dinosaur (2001). Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN: 0822941732.

The 1987 Sunlight Basin Writer's Camp: An anthology of poetry and prose (Editor) (1987). Powell, WY: Northwest Community College Production Printing. ISBN: (?). Co-editor Burton Bradley.

Smith and Other Poems (1985). Story, WY: Dooryard Press. ISBN: 0937160113.

Sun, Snow, Rain, You Name It: Poems by students from the Wyoming schools, 1982-83 (Editor) (1983). Cheyenne, WY: Wyoming Council on the Arts. ISBN: (?). Co-editor Mary Alice Gunderson.