Louis Phillips

Louis Phillips (born June 15, 1942) is an American poet, playwright, editor, and author of children's stories.

Phillips was born on June 15, 1942 in Lowell, Massachusetts. He received a BA from Stetson University in 1964, and MAs from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and CUNY in 1965 and 1967, respectively. Since 1977 he has served as professor of humanities at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, where he teaches creative writing.

Phillips has authored or co-authored around fifty books for children and adults, including five collections of short stories and several volumes of poetry. He is the editor of two Random House poetry anthologies, The Random House Treasury of Best Loved Poems and The Random House Treasury of Light Verse. He was a joint winner of a 1984 Swallow's Tale Press poetry award, and was the featured poet in the Spring/Summer 2011 issue of Light Quarterly.

His full-length plays have been performed in various New York City and American regional theatres, and his one-act plays have appared in Aethlon, The Massachusetts Review, and The Georgia Review.

He is the brother-in-law of John Ranard, photographer.