Xan Forest Phillips is an American poet and visual artist from rural Ohio.

Education

In 2014, Phillips received a

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from

Oberlin College Oberlin College is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Oberlin, Ohio, United States. Founded in 1833, it is the oldest Mixed-sex education, coeducational lib ...

, where he majored in Creative Writing and minored in

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. 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. He received a

Master of Fine Arts A Master of Fine Arts (MFA or M.F.A.) is a terminal degree in fine arts, including visual arts, creative writing, graphic design, photography, filmmaking, dance, theatre, other performing arts and in some cases, theatre management or arts admi ...

in Poetry from

Virginia Tech The Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, commonly referred to as Virginia Tech (VT), is a Public university, public Land-grant college, land-grant research university with its main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States ...

in 2016.

Writing

Phillips’ poetry has been featured in ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

Virginia Quarterly Review The ''Virginia Quarterly Review'' is a quarterly literary magazine that was established in 1925 by James Southall Wilson, at the request of University of Virginia president E. A. Alderman. This ''"National Journal of Literature and Discussio ...

'', ''The Offing'', ''The Journal'', '' Nashville Review'', ''

Ninth Letter ''Ninth Letter'' is a literary magazine that publishes poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. It is an interdisciplinary collaboration between thSchool of Art + Designand the Creative Writing Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign ...

'', and ''Best Experimental Writing''

Painting

Phillips' painting has appeared in ''

The Kenyon Review ''The Kenyon Review'' is a literary magazine based in Gambier, Ohio, home of Kenyon College. ''The Review'' was founded in 1939 by John Crowe Ransom, critic and professor of English at Kenyon College, who served as its editor until 1959. ''T ...

'', ''

Poetry Project The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church was founded in 1966 at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery in the East Village of Manhattan by, among others, the poet and translator Paul Blackburn. It has been a crucial venue for new and experimental poetr ...

'', and ''American Poets Magazine''.

Awards and distinctions

Phillips has received fellowships from

, Cave Canem (2016–2017), The Conversation Literary Festival (2018),

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, the

Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Wisconsin ( ) is a state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest of the United States. It borders Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Su ...

(2019–2020),

Brown University Brown University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. It is the List of colonial colleges, seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the US, founded in 1764 as the ' ...

(2020–2021), and

University of Pittsburgh The University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) is a Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The university is composed of seventeen undergraduate and graduate schools and colle ...

's Center for African American Poetry and Poetics (2021–2023). In 2020, he received

Lambda Literary The Lambda Literary Foundation (also known as Lambda Literary) is an American LGBTQ literary organization whose mission is to nurture and advocate for LGBTQ writers, elevating the impact of their words to create community, preserve their legaci ...

Judith A. Markowitz Award The Judith A. Markowitz Award for Exceptional New LGBTQ Writers, formerly known as the Dr. Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award and established in 2013, is an annual literary award presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation. The award is granted to ...

for Exceptional New LGBTQ Writers.

Publications

* ''Reasons for Smoking'' (2018) * ''Hull'' (2019)

Anthology contributions

* ''Bettering American Poetry Volume 2'', edited by Amy King, Jayy Dodd, Camile Rankine,

Muriel Leung Muriel Leung is an American writer. Her work includes the poetry collection ''Bone Confetti'', which won the 2015 Noemi Press Book Award and ''Imagine Us, The Swarm,'' which received the Nightboat’s Poetry Prize. She has received multiple writing ...

, Sarah Clark, Michael Wasson,

Joshua Jennifer Espinoza Joshua Jennifer Espinoza (born December 17, 1987) is an American poet from Riverside, California. She is a Visiting Professor of English at Occidental College in Los Angeles, California. Espinoza's works have been published in ''Poetry Magazine ...

, and Héctor Ramírez (2017) * ''Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry'', edited by Joanne V. Gabbin and Lauren K. Alleyne (2019)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Phillips, Xan Living people Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century African-American artists 21st-century African-American writers 21st-century American LGBTQ people 21st-century American poets African Americans in Ohio African-American painters African-American poets American non-binary writers American transgender writers African-American LGBTQ people Oberlin College alumni Poets from Ohio Virginia Tech alumni Writers from Ohio Lambda Literary Award winners