Michael Yost
Senior Admissions Officer
myost@thomasmorecollege.edu
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Profile
Biography
Born in Massachusetts and baptized at Boston’s Church of the Advent, Mr. Michael Yost was raised primarily in the state of Texas, as a member of the Episcopalian Church. Upon graduating from high school, he became a student at Thomas More College of Liberal Arts, during which time he met his future wife, and began to become more perfectly united with Rome. He received the sacrament of Confirmation as a member of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter in the summer of 2016.
While at Thomas More, Mr. Yost founded the St. Genesius Film Society, and was a member of the Sacred Music Guild, the Folk Guild, the Milk Street Society, the Debate Club, and played the lead role in a production of T.S. Eliot’s The Cocktail Party. He also participated in the 2017 Oxford Program, and wrote his senior thesis on the place held by the Ordinariates within the tradition of the Catholic Church, as well as within the broader range of Christian history that followed upon the Reformation. The above thesis was occasioned by his own submission to the authority of Rome, and a desire to explore the significance of Pope Benedict XVI’s apostolic constitution, Anglicanorum Coetibus.
After graduating from Thomas More College in the class of 2018, Mr. Yost married and remained in New Hampshire, working for four years as a teacher of Literature, History, and Philosophy at Mount Royal Academy, a preparatory school in the Sunapee area. In 2023 he received his MFA from the University of St. Thomas Houston in the Creative Writing program, which was recently founded and taught by such luminaries as James Matthew Wilson, Joshua Hren, and the U.S. Poet Laureate Dana Gioia. Mr. Yost’s poems and essays have appeared online at The Brazen Head, Crisis Magazine, Dappled Things, and Hearth and Field. You can also find Mr. Yost’s work on his Substack. Mr. Yost is the managing editor of The Colosseum: A New Journal of Arts and Letters, which is published by the Colosseum Institute.
He lives in New Hampshire with his wife and children.
