Tom Healy

Quick Facts

Full Name	Tom Healy
Occupation	Poet
Date Of Birth	Aug 5, 1961(1961-08-05)
Age	63
Country	United States
Birth City	White Plains
Horoscope	Leo

Tom Healy Biography

Tom Healy is one of the most popular and richest Poet who was born on August 5, 1961 in White Plains, United States. Tom Healy (born 1961) is a famous American poet and writer as well as a curator and public service. He is the current curator of the Curator Culture program of The Bass Museum in Miami Beach and is also a trustee. From 2011 to 2014, Healy was the chairman of the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, which manages the Fulbright scholars program across the world. The Fulbright Board by President Barack Obama in 2011 and was elected by the Board three times to be the chairman. Under his direction the Fulbright program was awarded its Princess of Asturias Awards presented by the King of Spain. Under the presidency of Bill Clinton, Healy was an active member of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA). From the 90s onward, Healy has played an active part within and has been a part of the New York City arts scene. Following 9/11, he was a key figure in the arts scene. 11 attack in 2001 Healy served as head of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) which was responsible for rebuilding efforts for the city’s arts and culture community. In 2006 the year of his mayor, Michael Bloomberg awarded him the New York City Mayors Award for Arts and Culture. Healy was a professor in the program of creative writing of New York University from 2010-2013 and was an adjunct faculty member of The New School from 2010-2014. He been a teacher at The Frost Place located in New Hampshire and Anderson Ranch the artist residence in Colorado. Since 2009, he’s been a guest writer every season at The New York State Summer Writers Institute.

The first book he wrote, What the Right Hand Knows which includes an introduction written by the poetry writer Richard Howard and a cover by the late John Ashbery, was a finalist in 2009 for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize as well as the Lambda Literary Award in poetry. The book came out in 2009 by Four Way Books. Publishers Weekly called the book, “laconic yet passionate and sparely personal,” noting “Healy’s finest moments make him spare, elegiac and wry all at the same time.” The Huffington Post, poet Carol Muske-Dukes wrotethat “From the near-cheerful merciless poems about childhood on a farm and the brutal lives of animals to big city glamour with new possibilities of flight from a flawed paradise–there is the sharp edge of art.”

Healy’s second book, Animal Spirits, was released in 2013 by Monk Books and was a collaboration with artist Duke Riley. Poet Bianca Stone wrote that Animal Spirits brought “the world of raptorial desire out into the open, blurring, even bruising, the lines that divide us from animal. …Healy works his eloquent sorcery on the crude but complicated facts of human desire. Animal Spirits conjures a complicated world of emotion in which we are stung by pain even as we are stunned into joy.”

Healy’s poems and essays on culture and politics have been published in many magazines and journals, including the Paris Review, Yale Review, BOMB, Salmagundi, Tin House, Drunken Boat and the New York Times. His work has also appeared in a variety of anthologies and artist books. In 2014, Healy was a fellow of the Harriet Monroe Institute, where he worked with poets Adam Fitzgerald and Robert Polito and biographer Karin Roffman to create a documentary archive of poet John Ashbery’s home in Hudson, New York.

Following the attacks, Healy was named president of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, which was the organization responsible for reconstruction efforts for the downtown arts and culture community. He was the primary person behind the establishment of Tribute in Light, the Tribute in Light memorial and overseeing the funding of local artists, numerous events, such as that of the River to River Music Festival and the LMCC’s highly respected Artist Residency Program. The year 2006 was the time that Mayor Bloomberg awarded Healy the New York City Mayors Award for Arts and Culture, which is the city’s highest-valued award for outstanding achievement in the field of arts.

Tom Healy Net Worth

Tom Healy is one of the richest Poet from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Tom Healy 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Healy who is HIV positive is active in numerous HIV/AIDS causes as well as fight against poverty. He has travelled all over the world to support microfinance initiatives and AIDS prevention groups. The president Bill Clinton appointed Healy to be a member of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA) and also was a member of an advisory board for AIDS Action Council in the early 1990s.

in 1994 Healy quit arts consultancy to create one of the first galleries for art in Chelsea. The gallery showcased a variety of young artists, who would later rise to fame such as Tom Sachs, Janet Cardiff, Kara Walker, and Karen Finley. Healy removed his gallery in 2000 , allowing him to go back to graduate school to pursue a degree in poetry.

In 2011, President Barack Obama appointed Healy to the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. He was subsequently elected Chairman, a position to which he was re-elected in 2012 and 2013. As Chairman, Healy traveled extensively for the State Department, visiting more than thirty countries on six continents to advocate for peace and understanding through the exchange of ideas. Healy wrote regularly about the Fulbright experience for the Huffington Post and many of his popular speeches and essays appear on his website. Under his leadership, the Fulbright program won the prestigious Prince of Asturias Award, presented by the King of Spain in recognition of the Fulbright program’s work to create peace and understanding in the world. In 2015, Healy was awarded The Fulbright Medal by the University of Arkansas.

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Tom Ranked on the list of most popular Poet. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Tom Healy celebrates birthday on August 5 of every year.