Tom Sleigh

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, He attended the California Institute of the Arts, for two years, where he graduated with an MA. Far Side of the Earth (Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003) The Dreamhouse (University of Chicago Press, 1999) The Chain (University of Chicago Press, 1996) Waking (University of Chicago Press, 1990) After One (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1983)

Prose works ROSIE: A Memoir of Farewell (Unbound Edition Press, 2026) The Land Between Two Rivers: Writing in an Age of Refugees (Graywolf Press, 2017) Interview with a Ghost (Graywolf Press, 2006)

Dramatic works Ice Trucker Pilgrimage, a multi-media opera (presented at San Francisco Film Festival 2006) The Knowledge and Conversation of My Holy Guardian Angel, or an Old-Fashioned Love Story (produced in 2004, New York Fringe Theater Festival) Rubber (performed at the Midtown International Theatre Festival, Raw Space Theater, New York City, 2002; winner of "Best of the Fest" award and a 2003 OOBR Award from the Off Off Broadway Review) Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters The Shelley Award from the Poetry Society of America Guggenheim Foundation Grant Ingram Merill Foundation Grant Two National Endowment for the Arts grants