Phillip B. Williams
Born: 1986 in Chicago, Illinois
Pen Name: None Connection to Illinois: Williams is a Chicago native. Biography: Phillip B. Williams received his MFA in Writing as a Chancellor’s Graduate Fellow at the Washington University in St. Louis. He is a Cave Canem graduate. He is the author of the chapbooks ''Bruised Gospels'' (2011), and ''Burn'' (2013). His poetry has appeared in Callaloo, Kenyon Review Online, Poetry, The Southern Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, West Branch, Blackbird and many others.One of the recipients of the 2017 Whiting Award, Williams has also received scholarships from Bread Loaf Writers Conference and a 2013 Ruth Lilly Fellowship. He is the co-editor-in-chief of the online journal Vinyl. A visiting professor in English at Bennington College, he currently lives in Portland, Oregon.
Awards:
- '''''Thief in the Interior'''''
- -- Finalist, NAACP Image Award, 2017
- -- Kate Tufts Discovery Award, 2017
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Selected Titles
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Prime : ISBN: 1937420736 OCLC: 880974097 Sibling Rivalry Press, Alexander, AR : ©2014. Poems and conversations by men in the black, queer literary community, sparked into existence by a Best American Poetry blog from Jericho Brown in which he singled out some of the most exciting young, black, and gay men writing today ... features poems by and dialogue between poets Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Saeed Jones, Rickey Laurentiis, Phillip B. Williams, and L. Lamar Wilson. |
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Thief in the interior / ISBN: 1938584171 OCLC: 903436605 |