Tom Healy is the author of three collections of poetry: Velvet (Monk Books 2019); Animal Spirits (Monk Books 2015); and What the Right Hand Knows (Four Way Books, 2009), a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize and the Lambda Literary Award.

Healy served as Chairman of the Fulbright Scholarship Board, which oversees the worldwide Fulbright scholars program, from 2011 to 2014. He has taught at New York University, The Pratt Institute, and The New School, and serves on the Boards of PEN America and the O, Miami Poetry Festival.