Emilia Phillips

Author's Bio

Emilia Phillips is the author of Signaletics (Univeristy of Akron Press, forthcoming August 2013). She is an adjunct instructor of creative writing at Virginia Commonwealth University, the associate literary editor of Blackbird, the prose editor of 32 Poems, and the De Novo Poetry Prize coordinator at C&R Press. She lives in Richmond, Virginia.

Publications and Prizes

Books:

Signaletics (University of Akron Press, Akron Poetry Series, 2013)

Chapbooks:

Bestiary of Gall (Sundress Publications, 2013)

Anthologies:

The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume VI: Tennessee (Texas Review Press, 2013), Bigger Than They Appear: An Anthology of Short Poems (Accents Publishing, 2012)

Journals:

42opus, Agni, Asheville Poetry Review, Barn Owl Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Birmingham Poetry Review, Cerise Press, Cimarron Review, Colorado Review, Connecticut River Review, Connotation Press, Conte, Copper Nickel, Diagram, diode, Ecotone, Green Mountains Review, Gulf Coast, Harvard Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Indiana Review, iO: A Journal of New American Poetry, Kenyon Review, Linebreak, Mead: The Magazine of Literature & Libations, Narrative Magazine, Pedestal Magazine, Poems & Plays, Poetry Miscellany, Sixth Finch, storySouth, Superstition Review, Sycamore Review, The Adirondack Review, The Adroit Journal, The Collagist, The Jet Fuel Review, The Paris-American, Third Coast, Unsaid

Prizes:

FELLOWSHIPS: Merida Fellowship, U.S. Poets in Mexico (2013); Zoland Poetry Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center (2012); Levis Fellowship for the Coordination of the Levis Reading Prize, Virginia Commonwealth University (2011–2012). PRIZES: Editor's Choice, 2012 Akron Poetry Prize; The Journal's 2012 Poetry Prize, selected by G.C. Waldrep. HONORS: Second Place, Narrative's 2012 30 Below Contest; Pushcart Nomination from Hayden's Ferry Review; Pushcart Nomination from The Paris-American. SCHOLARSHIPS: Mona van Duyn scholarship, Sewanee Writers' Conference (2011).

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Listing last updated: February 7, 2013

More Information

Listed as:

Poet

Gives readings?

Yes

Travels for readings?

Yes

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

English

Born in:

Chattanooga, TN

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