Patrick Phillips is an American poet, writer, and professor. He teaches writing and literature at Stanford University,^[1] and is a Carnegie Foundation Fellow and a fellow of the Cullman Center for Writers at the New York Public Library.^[2] He has been a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Copenhagen, and previously taught writing and literature at Drew University.^[3][4] He grew up in Georgia and now lives in San Francisco.

Phillips' 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,^[4] The American Poetry Review,^[5] Harvard Review,^[6] DoubleTake, New England Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review,^[7] and have been featured on Garrison Keillor's show The Writer's Almanac on National Public Radio.^[8]

Phillips' 2016 non-fiction book Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America was named a best book of the year by The Boston Globe, The New York Times, and Smithsonian magazine.^[2]

Phillips has also served as a faculty member for the annual Conference on Poetry at The Frost Place in New Hampshire.^[9]

• 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship
• 2009 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry^[10]
• 2008 Translation Prize of the American-Scandinavian Foundation^[11]
• 2005 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, for Chattahoochee^[12]
• 2004 Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Fellowship
• 2003 "Discovery" / The Nation Award, Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y^[13]
• 2001 Sjoberg Translation Prize of the American-Scandinavian Foundation, for translations of the Danish poet Henrik Nordbrandt^[11]
• 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.

• Official Website - PatrickPhillipsBooks.com
• "Stray Questions for: Patrick Phillips", Gregory Cowles, The New York Times, October 24, 2008
• "Watching the Surface for a Sign", video of readings and an interview with Natasha Trethewey, Southern Spaces: An Interndisciplinary Journal about the regions, places, and cultures of the American South, Emory University, April 14, 2009
• From the Fishouse: An Audio Archive of Emerging Poets: Patrick Phillips
• American Life in Poetry, Selected and Introduced by Ted Kooser: "Matinee" by Patrick Phillips