Thomas Duncan Armstrong writes of coming of age in Alabama in verse and prose. He lives, works and writes in New York City. He finds that you can take the goodboy out of the South, but you cannot take the South out of the goodboy. He is an enthusiast of the visual arts, a disciple of the performing arts, a student of the penned word, a lover of the opera, a Broadway baby, a memoir fool, a Hudson River pilgrim, a marathon runner, a community advocate for Lower Manhattan, a champion of LGBTQ families everywhere, a citizen of the world and a Scot to the core.

Nicknamed “Goodboy” by his Grandfather Duncan, Thomas tells the stories of a born and raised Alabama boy, exploring the ties that bind families together, as well as the happenstances that break us apart. He explores the issues of family love, bitterness, isolation, defeat, redemption, learning, attachment, loss, inspiration and hope. We all live in between the ties that bind us and those that unravel us. Sometimes we are bound together for good and sometimes we are bound together for bad. It is in between where we live out our lives and where earnest stories are wrought.