Tom Sleigh is the author of eleven books of poetry, including the winner of the 2023 Paterson Poetry Prize, The King’s Touch (Graywolf Press, 2022); House of Fact, House of Ruin (Graywolf Press, 2018); Station Zed (Graywolf Press, 2015); and Army Cats (Graywolf Press, 2011). Read More His most recent book of essays, The Land Between Two Rivers: Writing In an Age of Refugees (Graywolf Press, 2018) recounts his time as a journalist in the Middle East and Africa, in which he writes about refugee issues. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, NEA grant recipient, and winner of numerous awards, including the Kingsley Tufts Award, Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, John Updike Award, and Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His poems appear in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Threepenny Review, Poetry, The Southern Review, Harvard Review, Raritan, The Common, and many other magazines. In 2026 he will publish a memoir, Rosie, about how his mother took her own life, and in 2027, a New and Selected Poems. He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the MFA Program at Hunter College and lives in Brooklyn, NY.