Carl Phillips

Carl Phillips is the author of twelve books of poems, most recently Silverchest and Double Shadow. He has also translated Sophocles's Philoctetes and written two books of prose, Coin of the Realm: Essays on the Life and Art of Poetry and The Art of Daring: Risk, Restlessness, Imagination His awards include the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement, the Kingsley Tufts Award, the Theodore Roethke Memorial Foundation Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and prizes and fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Library of Congress. He teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.