Tom Sleigh

Tom Sleigh’s fifteen books include the 2023 Paterson Poetry Prize winner The King’s Touch as well as House of Fact, House of Ruin; Station Zed; and Army Cats. His awards include the Kingsley Tufts Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, two NEA grants, the Shelley Memorial Award, and both the Updike Award and the Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Rosie: A Memoir of Farewell was published in May 2026 by Unbound Edition Press. His new and selected poems will appear in 2027. A Distinguished Professor at Hunter College, he lives in Brooklyn.