Truth Thomas (born Glenn Edward Thomas in Knoxville, Tennessee) is an American singer-songwriter, poet, editor, publisher and founder of Cherry Castle Publishing, LLC. He is the author of Party of Black (2006), A Day of Presence (2008), Bottle of Life (2010), Speak Water (2012), winner of the 2013 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Poetry, and My TV is Not the Boss of Me (2013), Jessie Redmon Fauset Book Award Finalist 2014, a children's book, illustrated by Cory Thomas. Thomas is the creator of fixed form of poetry known as "The Skinny." In addition, he has edited and co-edited a number of anthologies, including Where We Stand: Poems of Black Resilience (Cherry Castle Publishing, 2022),The Skinny Poetry Anthology (Cherry Castle Publishing, 2019), and is the Editor-in-Chief