Thomas Sayers Ellis is a poet, photographer, and Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York, and a core faculty member of the Lesley University Low Residency MFA Program in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He previously taught as an associate professor at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. He was raised in Washington, D.C. and attended Paul Laurence Dunbar High School. In 1988 he co-founded The Dark Room Collective in Cambridge, Massachusetts, an organization that celebrated and gave greater visibility to emerging and established writers of... color. Ellis received his B.A. from Harvard University and his M.F.A. from Brown University in 1995. Ellis is known in the poetry community as a literary activist and innovator, whose poems "resist limitations and rigorously embrace wholeness.
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