Thomas Sayers Ellis grew up in Washington, DC, and earned his M.F.A. 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.
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Thomas Ellis
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Region: Cleveland Heights, OH
MacDowell Fellowships: 1993, 1995
Studios
Mansfield
Thomas Ellis worked in the Mansfield studio.
The Helen Coolidge Mansfield Studio was donated by graduates of the Mansfield War Service Classes for Reconstruction Aides. Helen Mansfield helped found the New York MacDowell Club. The small, shingled frame structure with stone foundation was originally fronted on the west side by a neat white picket fence and gate, a garden, and a stone pathway…