Tom Sleigh () is an American poet, dramatist, essayist and academic, who lives in New York City. He has published nine books of original poetry, one full-length translation of Euripides' ''Herakles'' and two books of essays. His most recent books are House of Fact, House of Ruin: Poems and The Land Between Two Rivers: Writing In an Age of Refugees (essays). At least five of his plays have been produced. He has won numerous awards, including the 2008 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, worth $100,000, an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, The Shelley Award from the Poetry Society of America, and a Guggenheim Foundation grant. He currently serves as director of Hunter College's [http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/creativewriting/ Master of Fine Arts (MFA) program in Creative Writing]. He is the recipient of the Anna-Maria Kellen Prize and Fellow at the [http://www.americanacademy.de/ American Academy in Berlin] for Fall 2011.
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Tom Sleigh () is an American poet, dramatist, essayist and academic, who lives in New York City. He has published nine books of original poetry, one full-length translation of Euripides' ''Herakles'' and two books of essays. His most recent books are House of Fact, House of Ruin: Poems and The Land Between Two Rivers: Writing In an Age of Refugees (essays). At least five of his plays have been produced. He has won numerous awards, including the 2008 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, worth $100,000, an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, The Shelley Award from the Poetry Society of America, and a Guggenheim Foundation grant. He currently serves as director of Hunter College's [http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/creativewriting/ Master of Fine Arts (MFA) program in Creative Writing]. He is the recipient of the Anna-Maria Kellen Prize and Fellow at the [http://www.americanacademy.de/ American Academy in Berlin] for Fall 2011.
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