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Thomas Sayers Ellis

Black and white headshot of poet Thomas Sayers Ellis, with a finger to his brow.

Thomas Sayers Ellis grew up in Washington, DC, and earned his MFA from Brown University. He is the author of Skin, Inc. (2013) and The Maverick Room (2005). He cofounded the Dark Room Collective in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and received a Whiting Award in 2005. Ellis has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, Case Western Reserve University, and Lesley University. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Poems by Thomas Sayers Ellis
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Bibliography

  • The Genuine Negro Hero (poetry chapbook), Kent State University Press (Kent, OH), 2001.
  • The Maverick Room (poems), Graywolf Press (St. Paul, MN), 2005.


Also author of The Good Junk, published in Take Three: 1, Graywolf Press (St. Paul, MN), 1996. Contributor to Best American Poetry, 1997, 2001, 2002.Contributor to journals and periodicals such as Tin House, Ploughshares, Beatrice, and >Grand Street. Contributing editor, Callaloo; coeditor of On the Verge: Emerging Poets and Artists, 1993.