Tom Sleigh

Tom Sleigh won the 2008 Kingsley Tufts Award for his book of poetry, Space Walk (Houghton Mifflin, 2007). His book of essays, Interview with a Ghost, was published by Graywolf Press in 2006. He has also published After One, Waking, The Chain, The Dreamhouse, Far Side of the Earth, Bula Matari/Smasher of Rocks, Army Cats, and a translation of Euripides’ Herakles. He has won the Shelley Prize from the PSA, and grants from the Lila Wallace Fund, American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Academy in Berlin, the Guggenheim and the NEA. In 2011 he received the inaugural John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He teaches in the MFA Program at Hunter College and is a contributing editor of AGNI. (updated 4/2012)

Sleigh’s AGNI poem “After Herodetous” won a Pushcart Prize and is reprinted in the 2006 anthology; “At the Pool” was chosen for The Best American Poetry 2009.

Read “An Interview with Tom Sleigh” by Allegra Wong in AGNI Online.

Sleigh’s second book, Waking, was reviewed in AGNI 34 by Joseph Lease.

His collection The Chain was reviewed in AGNI 43 by Susan Mitchell.

His collection The Dreamhouse was reviewed in AGNI 52 by Sven Birkerts.