Xan Phillips

Xan Forest Phillips is an American poet and visual artist from rural Ohio.[1][2] [3][4]

Education

In 2014, Phillips received a Bachelor of Arts from Oberlin College, where he majored in Creative Writing and minored in Africana Studies.[5] While at Oberlin, he served as a board member for the Center for Women and Trans People and completed a two-year research fellowship in Black Poetics.[5]

He received a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from Virginia Tech in 2016.

Writing

Phillips’ poetry has been featured in BOMB, Poets.org, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Offing, The Journal, Nashville Review, Ninth Letter, and Best Experimental Writing

Painting

Phillips' painting has appeared in The Kenyon Review, Poetry Project, and American Poets Magazine.[6]

Awards and distinctions

Phillips has received fellowships from Oberlin College, Cave Canem (2016–2017),[7][8] The Conversation Literary Festival (2018),[9] Callaloo, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing (2019–2020), Brown University (2020–2021),[6] and University of Pittsburgh's Center for African American Poetry and Poetics (2021–2023).[10][11]

In 2020, he received Lambda Literary's Judith A. Markowitz Award for Exceptional New LGBTQ Writers.[12][13]

Awards for Phillips' writing

Year	Work	Award / Honor	Result	Ref.
2021	HULL	Whiting Award for Poetry	Winner	[11]
2016		Reasons for Smoking	The Seattle Review Chapbook Contest	Winner	[6]
2016	"For a Burial Free of Sharks"	Gigantic Sequins Contest for Poetry	Winner	[14]

Publications

• Reasons for Smoking (2018)
• Hull (2019)

Anthology contributions

• Bettering American Poetry Volume 2, edited by Amy King, Jayy Dodd, Camile Rankine, Muriel Leung, Sarah Clark, Michael Wasson, Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, and Héctor Ramírez (2017)
• Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry, edited by Joanne V. Gabbin and Lauren K. Alleyne (2019)

References

1. "Xan Forest Phillips". Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America. Brown University.
2. "About Xan Phillips". XanPhillips.com. Archived from the original on December 1, 2023. Retrieved April 27, 2023.
3. "Xan Phillips – Nightboat Books". April 28, 2023. Archived from the original on April 28, 2023. Retrieved April 28, 2023.
4. yourdailyqueer. "Xan Phillips". Tumblr. Retrieved April 28, 2023.
5. "CV". Xan Phillips. Retrieved January 20, 2022.
6. "Xandria Phillips | Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America". Brown University. Retrieved January 20, 2022.
7. "Phillips, Xandria". Cave Canem. Archived from the original on January 20, 2022. Retrieved January 20, 2022.
8. "Blog Archive » Phillips, Xandria". Cave Canem. Retrieved January 20, 2022.
9. "2018 Fellows". #ConvoLit2018. Retrieved January 20, 2022.
10. McKenzie, Jessica (June 23, 2021). "CAAPP names poet Xandria Phillips as new creative writing fellow". The Pitt News. Retrieved January 20, 2022.
11. "Xandria Phillips selected as next CAAPP creative writing fellow". University Times. 53 (22). University of Pittsburgh. July 2, 2021.
12. "Lambda Announces Markowitz Award Winners". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved January 20, 2022.
13. Gentes, Brian (May 6, 2020). "Xandria Phillips and Calvin Gimpelevich Win 2020 Judith A. Markowitz Award for Emerging Writers". Lambda Literary. Retrieved January 20, 2022.
14. "Contests". Gigantic Sequins: a literary arts journal. Retrieved January 20, 2022.

External links

• Official website