Rowan Ricardo Phillips
American poet
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| Intro | American poet | ||||||
| Places | United States of America | ||||||
| is | Poet | ||||||
| Work field | Literature | ||||||
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| Birth | 1974, New York City, New York, USA | ||||||
| Age | 50 years | ||||||
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Biography
Rowan Ricardo Phillips (born 1974 in New York City) is an American poet. He won a 2013 Whiting Award and an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in 2016.
Life
He graduated from Swarthmore College and Brown University.
His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Granta.
Awards and honors
- 2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist for poetry, for The Ground
- 2013 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award winner for poetry, for The Ground
- 2013 NAACP Image Award finalist for Outstanding Literary Work, Poetry, for The Ground
- 2013 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry winner, for The Ground
- 2013 Whiting Award winner for poetry
- 2015 Guggenheim Fellow
- 2016 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for "Heaven"
- 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize shortlist for Heaven
- 2019 Nicolás Guillén Outstanding Book Award for Heaven, given by the Caribbean Philosophical Association
- 2019 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing for The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey
Works
- Poetry
- The Ground: Poems. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2012. ISBN 978-1-4668-0253-7.
- Heaven: Poems. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. June 2015. ISBN 9780374168520.
- Criticism
- When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness (Dalkey Archive Scholarly Series). Dalkey Archive Press. 20 July 2010. ISBN 978-1-56478-619-7.
- Translation
- Salvador Espriu (28 August 2012). Ariadne in the Grotesque Labyrinth. Dalkey Archive Press. ISBN 978-1-56478-773-6.
Nonfiction
- The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2018. ISBN 9780374123772.