Patrick Phillips
PATRICK PHILLIPS is the author of three previous books of poems, including Chattahoochee , which won the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and Elegy for a Broken Machine , which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America , a work of nonfiction, was a New York Times Notable book. Among Phillips's other honors are Guggenheim and NEA Fellowships, a Pushcart Prize, and the Lyric Poetry Award from the Poetry Society of America. He is also translator of...See more
PATRICK PHILLIPS is the author of three previous books of poems, including Chattahoochee , which won the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and Elegy for a Broken Machine , which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America , a work of nonfiction, was a New York Times Notable book. Among Phillips's other honors are Guggenheim and NEA Fellowships, a Pushcart Prize, and the Lyric Poetry Award from the Poetry Society of America. He is also translator of When We Leave Each Other: Selected Poems of Henrik Nordbrandt . Phillips lives in Brooklyn and teaches at Stanford University. See less