Alan Thomas is Editorial Director at the University of Chicago Press and a photographer. His work has appeared in Places Journal, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Poetry. In 2012, his one-person show at the Seagull Foundation for the Arts, Calcutta, surveyed photographs made over two decades in Chicago, Tokyo, and Calcutta. His book, 55x5, is published by Marquand Editions. Follow him on Twitter at @alnthomas