Patrick Phillips

Patrick Phillips is an American poet, professor, and translator. His 2015 poetry collection, Elegy for a Broken Machine (Alfred A. Knopf), was a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry. His poems have appeared in many magazines, including Poetry, Ploughshares,^[1] The American Poetry Review,^[2] Harvard Review,^[3] DoubleTake, New England Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review,^[4] and have been featured on Garrison Keillor's show The Writer's Almanac on National Public Radio.^[5] He has been a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Copenhagen, and teaches writing and literature at Drew University.^[6]^[1] Patrick Phillips grew up in Gainesville, Georgia, and now lives in New York City.

In January 2017, Phillips was announced as a faculty member of the 2017 Conference on Poetry at The Frost Place.

Honors and awards

2010 Guggenheim Fellowship
2009 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry^[7]
2008 Translation Prize of the American-Scandinavian Foundation^[8]
2005 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, for Chattahoochee^[9]
2004 Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Fellowship
2003 "Discovery" / The Nation Award, Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y^[10]
2001 Sjoberg Translation Prize of the American-Scandinavian Foundation, for translations of the Danish poet Henrik Nordbrandt^[8]
2000 Fulbright Fellowship in Literary Translation, University of Copenhagen

Chattahoochee. University of Arkansas Press. 2004. ISBN 978-1-55728-775-5.
Boy. University of Georgia Press. 2008. ISBN 978-0-8203-3119-5.
Elegy for a Broken Machine. Alfred A. Knopf. 2015. ISBN 978-0385353755.
Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America. W. W. Norton & Company. 2016. ISBN 978-0-393-29301-2.

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