About
Sylee Gore is a 2025 National Endowment of the Arts Creative Writing Fellow in Poetry working on absence, light, and time. An American artist and writer born in Mumbai, she lives in Berlin, where she works in art publishing.
Forthcoming in 2026
Intimate Infinity (Sampson Low)
The metropolis exists in a state of flux, undoing and remaking itself ceaselessly. Gore’s images emerge from this tumult, revealing the pleasures to be unfurled from patient observation, portraying the serendipitous rewards available to the attuned eye. Featuring lyric essays by Dilek Güngör and Donna Stonecipher, Gore’s collection is both an experiment in seeing differently and an invitation to revel in evanescence.
Vast Orders of Light (Steel Incisors)
Gore’s fragmentary visual and linguistic idiom offers a subtle meditation on the communicative and ritualised forms that underwrite our social existence. Elements of abstract photography, collage, painting, and lyrical reflection imbue the objet trouvé with purposeful artistic form.
Contact
Represented by David Godwin Associates and Literarische Agentur Simon. For translation and editing commissions, visit Only Today.
Email sygore [at] gmail [dot] com
Longer Bio
Sylee Gore is a 2025 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow in Poetry whose work explores absence, light, and time. An American writer and artist born in Mumbai and raised in the United States, she has lived in Berlin for many years. After studying English Literature and History of Science at Stanford University and completing a master’s degree with distinction at the University of Oxford, she worked across language- and education-focused fields before turning fully toward her own creative work.
She began publishing her writing and visual work in 2020, and her poems have since received recognition in the United States and the United Kingdom, including the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize, the Bird in Your Hand Prize, and the Lord Alfred Douglas Memorial Prize. Alongside her writing, she translates German texts on contemporary art into English, an adjacent practice that continues to inform her attention to materiality, gesture, and the interplay of text and image.