Rowan Ricardo Phillips

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.

He graduated from Swarthmore College and Brown University.

His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Granta.

• 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

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.