Tim Seibles

Tim Seibles (born 1955) is an American poet and academic.

Life
Seibles was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He earned a B.A. from Southern Methodist University in 1977. He remained in Dallas after graduating and taught high school English for ten years. He received an M.F.A. from Vermont College of Fine Arts in 1990. He is a professor of English and creative writing at Old Dominion University, as well as teaching in the Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing and teaching workshops for Cave Canem. He lives in Norfolk, Virginia.

His poems have been published in literary journals and magazines including Callaloo, The Kenyon Review, Indiana Review, Ploughshares, Electronic Poetry Review, Rattle, and in anthologies including Verse & Universe: Poems About Science and Mathematics (Milkweed Editions, 1998) and New American Poets in the 90’s (David R. Godine, 1991).

Recognition
Seibles has received an Open Voice Award and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. In 2012 he was nominated for a National Book Award, for Fast Animal.

Published works
Full-Length Poetry Collections
 * Body Moves (Corona Press, 1988); Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2012, ISBN 9780887485596
 * Hurdy-Gurdy. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1992. ISBN 9780914946984
 * Kerosene (chapbook). Ampersand Press, 1995. ISBN 9780935331165
 * Ten Miles an Hour (chapbook). Mille Grazie Press, 1998. ISBN 9781890887056
 * Hammerlock. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1999. ISBN 9781880834459
 * Buffalo Head Solos. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2004. ISBN 9781880834640
 * Fast Animal. Etruscan Press, 2012. ISBN 9780983294429