Phillip B. Williams

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Phillip B. Williams is author of the poetry collections Mutiny (Penguin Poets, 2021), winner of the 2022 American Book Award, and Thief in the Interior (Alice James Books, 2016), winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, a Whiting Award, and a Lambda Literary Award.

Williams is also the author of the novel Ours (Viking, 2024). His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Boston Review, Callaloo, The Kenyon Review, The New Republic, The New Yorker, and elsewhere.

A nominee for an NAACP Image Award in Poetry, Williams is the recipient of fellowships from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. He serves as a faculty member in Randolph College’s low-residency MFA program.