Phillip B. Williams

Phillip B. Williams (born 1986) is an American poet. Born in Chicago, he is the author of the chapbooks "Bruised Gospels" and "Burn" as well as the full length poetry collections "Thief in the Interior" and "MUTINY".
Career.
He graduated with an MFA from Washington University where he was a Chancellor’s Graduate fellow. He teaches at Bennington College. Williams was a Poetry Fellow at the 2018 Conference on Poetry at The Frost Place. His poetry has been featured in "Callaloo", "The Kenyon Review" Online, "The Southern Review", "Painted Bride Quarterly", "West Branch", and "Blackbird". Williams is a Cave Canem Foundation graduate as well as co-editor in chief, with KMA Sullivan, of the online journal Vinyl.
His work has been praised for its "devout and excruciating attention to the line [whose] indispensible music fuses his implacable understanding of words with their own shadows."
Awards.
"Thief in the Interior" was the winner of the 2017 Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry at the 29th Lambda Literary Awards. In 2017 Williams was awarded a Whiting Award for Poetry.