Sexton, Tom

From 1970 to 1994, Sexton taught English and creative writing at the University of Alaska - Anchorage where he established the creative writing program and served as English Department chair for several years. He was a founding editor of the Alaska Quarterly Review, leaving the magazine when in retired in 1994. He was appointed Alaska's Poet Laureate in 1995. He is the author of eight books of poetry. His latest is A Clock With No Hands, Adastra 2007, a collection of poems about growing up in Lowell, Massachusetts. Sexton and his wife, Sharyn, spend every other winter in Eastport, Maine.