Tom Sleigh

Tom Sleigh (Born in Mt. Pleasant, Texas)  His newest book,  Army Cats, will be published this Spring, 2011 by Graywolf Press.  His other books of poetry include After One, winner of the Houghton Mifflin New Poetry Prize; Waking, a finalist for the Lamont Poetry Prize and the William Carlos Williams Award; The Chain, finalist for Lenore Marshall Prize; The Dreamhouse finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award; Far Side of the Earth, an Honor Book Award from the Massachusetts Society for the Book; Bula Matari/Smasher of Rocks; a translation of Euripides' Herakles; a book of essays, Interview With a Ghost; and Space Walk, winner of the $100,000 2008 Kingsley Tufts Award. 

Sleigh has also received the Shelley Prize from the Poetry Society of America and a Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin. In March 2011, he became the inaugural winner of the biennial $20,000 John Updike Award for a writer in mid-career who has shown "consistent excellence," awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.  Sleigh is also a recipient of an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, an Individual Writer's Award from the Lila Wallace/Reader's Digest Fund, and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He earned his MA in Creative Writing from Johns Hopkins  University.

Tom Sleigh has taught at Dartmouth College, the University of Iowa, UC-Berkely, Johns Hopkins University, and NYU.  He currently teaches in the MFA Program at Hunter College and lives in Brooklyn.

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