Thomas Sayers Ellis

Poet, Photographer, Professor, Thomas Sayers Ellis is the bandleader and a co-founding member of HAGL. He is the author of “The Maverick Room and Skin, Inc. Identity Repair Poems” (Graywolf Press) and his work have appeared in The Paris Review, Poetry, The Nation, Tin House as well as numerous anthologies. He has taught at numerous Universities and is the recipient of a Mrs. Giles Whiting Writers Award and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for Poetry in 2015.