Phillip B. Williams

Phillip B. Williams

Born 1986 (age 30–31)
Chicago, Illinois
Occupation Poet, spoken-word performer
Nationality American
Genre Poetry
Notable awards Kate Tufts Discovery Award, Whiting Award for Poetry

Phillip B. Williams (born 1986 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American poet. He is the author of the chapbooks Bruised Gospels (Arts in Bloom Inc., 2011), Burn (YesYes Books, 2013), and Thief in the Interior (Alice James Books, 2016). His poetry has been included in Callaloo, The Kenyon Review Online, The Southern Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, West Branch, and Blackbird. Williams is a Cave Canem Foundation graduate and the poetry editor of the online journal Vinyl Poetry. He is a Chancellor’s Graduate fellow at Washington University, St. Louis, completing a MFA in creative writing.[1] His work has been praised for its "devout and excruciating attention to the line [whose] indispensible music fuses his implacable understanding of words with their own shadows."[2]

Awards

Thief in the Interior was the winner of the 2017 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, the 2017 Whiting Award for Poetry[3] and the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry at the 29th Lambda Literary Awards.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Phillip B. Williams". Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 24 April 2017.
  2. ↑ Griffiths, Rachel Eliza (November 3, 2015). "Poet's Sampler: Phillip B. Williams". The Boston Review (November 03, 2015).
  3. ↑ Ciulac, Andreea (March 23, 2017). "Chicago Tribune" (March 23, 2017). Tronc. Retrieved 24 April 2017.
  4. ↑ "29th Annual Lambda Literary Award winners announced". LGBT Weekly, June 13, 2017.
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