A National Arts Club Fellow for 2023-24, Thomas March is a poet, performer, and essayist who lives in New York City. He is the author of Aftermath (2018), a poetry collection that poet Joan Larkin selected for The Word Works Hilary Tham Capital Collection. From 2017-2023, he was the curator and host of the long-running variety salon Poetry/Cabaret, a bi-monthly performance series in New York City that brought together poets, comedians, and cabaret performers to share their responses to a common theme. With painter Valerie Mendelson, he is the co-creator of A Good Mixer, a text and visual hybrid project that imagines a virtual cocktail party in the form of paintings of people’s cocktails and poems representing the thoughts and desires of their drinkers. The full series was exhibited at The National Arts Club in February 2025. In recent years, he has written and performed “tragi-comic” monologues across New York City, including Ars Nova, The Duplex, Joe’s Pub, The Peoples Improv Theater, and Sid Gold’s Request Room. With PEN America’s Prison Writing Program, he has served as a judge for the Prison Writing Contest’s poetry panel and for the inaugural L’Engle-Rahman Award for Mentorship. A past recipient of the Norma Millay Ellis Fellowship in Poetry, from Millay Arts, he also received an Artist/Writer grant from The Vermont Studio Center. He has lived in New York City for over 25 years, where he teaches at The Brearley School and in Barnard College’s Pre-College Program.