Tom Sleigh’s books include After One, Waking, The Chain, The Dreamhouse, Far Side of the Earth, Bula Matari/Smasher of Rocks, Space Walk, and a translation of Euripides’ Herakles. His book of essays, Interview with a Ghost, was published in 2006. Among his many awards are the Kingsley Tufts Award, the Shelley Prize from the Poetry Society of America, an Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, an Individual Writer’s Award from the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He teaches in the MFA Program at Hunter College and lives in Brooklyn.