Thomas Sayers Ellis is a poet and photographer. A co-founder of The Dark Room Collective in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1988, he is an assistant professor of creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College. He has published two volumes of poetry, The Maverick Room and Skin, Inc., and is currently at work on a collection of photographs titled The Go-Go Book: People in the Pocket in Washington, D.C.

Photo credit: Rachel Eliza Griffiths 2010