H. Palmer Hall is the author of eleven books (this year's short story collection, Into the Thicket (Ink Brush Press, 2011), and The Big Thicket: Requiem and Redemption (poems and essays published by Pecan Grove Press as a companion book to Into the Thicket) join Foreign and Domestic from Turning Point Books (2009) and the essays in Coming to Terms (Plain View Press, 2008), plus various poetry chapbooks including From the Periphery: poems and essays (Chili Verde Press) ; Deep Thicket and Still Waters(Chili Verde Press) and To Wake Again (Pudding House Publications). His work has appeared in various literary magazines, including North American Review, The Texas Review, Ascent, Mizna: a journal of Arab American Culture, Palo Alto Review, The Texas Observer, Briar Cliff Review, The Connecticut Review, WLA (War, Literature and the Arts), Connecticut River Review, The Line Up, The Florida Review and many others.   His work has also been selected for several anthologies, including American Diaspora: poetry of displacement (University of Iowa Press), Letters to J. D. Salinger (University of Wisconsin Press), In a Fine Frenzy (University of Iowa Press), Best Texas Writing II (Firewheel Editions), The Practice of Peace (Sherman Asher Publishing) and others.

In 2007, his own press, Pecan Grove Press, published Reflections from Pete’s Pond, a small book of his poems written for the aficionados of a live webcast from the Mashatu Game Reserve in Botswana, Africa, which sells the book in its Curio Shop.

He received the Art of Peace Award from the President's Peace Commission of St. Mary's University in spring, 2008.

In April, 2010, he was named "Artist of the Month" by the Office of Cultural Affairs of the City of San Antonio.

This year, he is a finalist for one of two Texas State Poet Laureate appointments.

You can read a profile of the author/publisher in the January 2008 issue of The Texas Observer and can read more about him and Pecan Grove Press in a San Antonio Express-News article, Roots Run Deep for Pecan Grove Press, written by Steve Bennett and published in the Culturas section of the newspaper on Sunday, October 5, 2008. You may also read more about him in Wikipedia.

He is the library director at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas, where he also teaches English and serves as the director of Pecan Grove Press.  He is a member of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) and of the Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers (TACWT).

He was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters in 2005.