Carl Phillips

Carl Phillips is the author of seventeen books of poetry, most recently Scattered Snows, to the North, and Then the War: And Selected Poems 2007-2020, which won the Pulitzer Prize. His other honours include the Jackson Poetry Prize, the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, the Kingsley Tufts Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a Lambda Literary Award, the PEN/USA Award for Poetry, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Library of Congress, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Academy of American Poets. His collection, Silverchest, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2014. Phillips has also written three prose books, most recently, My Trade is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing, and he has translated the Philoctetes of Sophocles. He lives on Cape Cod, in Massachusetts.