| Thomas Fox Averill | |
| Birth Date: | 30 April 1949 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Awards: | Kansas Notable Book Award (2006, 2012) |
Thomas Fox Averill (born April 30, 1949) is an American writer, novelist, and academic from Topeka, Kansas. His works, including Secrets of the Tsil Cafe,[1] [2] The Slow Air of Ewan Macpherson,[3] Ordinary Genius, and, more recently Rode, have won wide acclaim in Kansas and throughout the United States. He is a two-time winner of Kansas Notable Book Awards.
Averill is a writer-in-residence and professor of English at Topeka's Washburn University. Well known as a writer and teacher, Averill has published numerous works of fiction, short stories, and stories on his native Kansas and society at large.