Tom Sleigh

Tom Sleigh (/sleɪ/) is an American poet, dramatist, essayist and academic, who lives in New York City.

[1] He currently serves as director of Hunter College's Master of Fine Arts (MFA) program in Creative Writing.

Tom Sleigh was born in Mount Pleasant, Texas,[1] where he lived until the age of five, when he moved to Utah.

[2] He attended the California Institute of the Arts,[1] Evergreen State College,[1] and the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars[3] for two years, where he graduated with an MA.

[1] In an interview published in the literary journal AGNI, Sleigh lists his poetic influences: I'd have to say that Browning for his technique; Wallace Stevens for a certain quality of gravitas, what Keats feels near his death, when he said he was living a sort of posthumous existence; Philip Larkin for his sense of extremity; Pound for his fluidity of conception and hardness of execution; Baudelaire for his music and intense scrutiny and affection for street life; and Bishop and Lowell for their immersion in the physical world, would be my fathers and mothers.