Thomas Sayers Ellis co-founded
The Dark Room Collective and received his M.F.A. from Brown University
in 1995. His work has appeared in The American Poetry Review; AGNI; Best American Poetry (1997 and 2001); Boston
Book Review; Boston Review; Callaloo; Fence; Grand Street; Hambone;
Harvard Advocate; Harvard Review; the Kenyon Review; Ploughshares;
the Pushcart Prize 1998; the Southern Review;The
Garden Thrives: Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry; Tin House;
Giant Steps: The New Generation of African American Writers; American
Poetry: The Next Generation; and Wax Poetics. He has received
fellowships from The Ohio Arts Council, The MacDowell Colony, The Fine
Arts Work Center (in Provincetown) and YADDO; and in 1993 he co-edited On the Verge: Emerging Poets and Artists. Ellis is a contributing
editor of Callaloo and his first collection The Good Junk (1996) was published in the Graywolf annual Take Three. He
is also the author of a chapbook, The Genuine Negro Hero (Kent
State University Press, 2001), and the forthcoming The Maverick
Room (Graywolf 2005). An associate professor of English at Case
Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) and a faculty member of
the Lesley University low-residency M.F.A. program (Cambridge, Mass.),
he is currently compiling and editing Quotes Community: Notes for
Black Poets.
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