Xan Phillips
Xan Forest Phillips is an American poet and visual artist from rural Ohio.[1][2] [3][4]
Education[edit]
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[edit]
Phillips’ poetry has been featured in BOMB, Poets.org, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Offing, The Journal, Nashville Review, Ninth Letter, Scalawag,[6] Best Experimental Writing, and We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics.
Painting[edit]
Phillips' painting has appeared in The Kenyon Review, Poetry Project, and American Poets Magazine.[7]
Awards and distinctions[edit]
Phillips has received fellowships from Oberlin College, Cave Canem (2016–2017),[8][9] The Conversation Literary Festival (2018),[10] Callaloo, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing (2019–2020), Brown University (2020–2021),[7] and University of Pittsburgh's Center for African American Poetry and Poetics (2021–2023).[11][12]
In 2020, he received Lambda Literary's Judith A. Markowitz Award for Exceptional New LGBTQ Writers.[13][14]
| Year | Work | Award / Honor | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | HULL | Whiting Award for Poetry | Winner | [12] |
| 2020 | Lambda Literary Award for Trans Poetry | Winner | [15] | |
| 2016 | Reasons for Smoking | The Seattle Review Chapbook Contest | Winner | [7] |
| 2016 | "For a Burial Free of Sharks" | Gigantic Sequins Contest for Poetry | Winner | [16] |
Publications[edit]
- Reasons for Smoking (2018)
- Hull (2019)
Anthology contributions[edit]
- 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[edit]
- ^ "Xan Forest Phillips". Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America. Brown University.
- ^ "About Xan Phillips". XanPhillips.com.
- ^ "Xan Phillips – Nightboat Books". April 28, 2023. Archived from the original on April 28, 2023. Retrieved April 28, 2023.
- ^ yourdailyqueer. "Xan Phillips". Tumblr. Retrieved April 28, 2023.
- ^ a b "CV". Xan Phillips. Retrieved January 20, 2022.
- ^ "A Poem by Xandria Phillips". Lambda Literary. February 13, 2018. Retrieved January 20, 2022.
- ^ a b c "Xandria Phillips | Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America". Brown University. Retrieved January 20, 2022.
- ^ "Phillips, Xandria". Cave Canem. Retrieved January 20, 2022.
- ^ "Blog Archive » Phillips, Xandria". Cave Canem. Retrieved January 20, 2022.
- ^ "2018 Fellows". #ConvoLit2018. Retrieved January 20, 2022.
- ^ McKenzie, Jessica (June 23, 2021). "CAAPP names poet Xandria Phillips as new creative writing fellow". The Pitt News. Retrieved January 20, 2022.
- ^ a b "Xandria Phillips selected as next CAAPP creative writing fellow". University Times. 53 (22). University of Pittsburgh. July 2, 2021.
- ^ "Lambda Announces Markowitz Award Winners". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved January 20, 2022.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "2020 Winners". Lambda Literary. Retrieved January 20, 2022.
- ^ "Contests". Gigantic Sequins: a literary arts journal. Retrieved January 20, 2022.
External links[edit]
- Living people
- 21st-century African-American artists
- 21st-century African-American writers
- 21st-century American LGBT people
- 21st-century American poets
- African Americans in Ohio
- African-American painters
- African-American poets
- American non-binary writers
- American transgender writers
- African-American LGBT people
- Oberlin College alumni
- Poets from Ohio
- Virginia Tech alumni
- Writers from Ohio
- Lambda Literary Award winners