Phillip Sterling

Phillip Sterling is the author of Lessons in Geography: The Education of a Michigan Author (essays/memoir, Cornerstone 2024); Amateur Husbandry (microfiction, Mayapple 2019), In Which Brief Stories Are Told (short fiction, Wayne State U Press 2011), and eight collections of poetry: Local Congregation: Poems Uncollected 1985-2015 (Main Street Rag 2023), Short on Days (Main Street Rag 2020), And Then Snow (Main Street Rag 2017), And for All This: Poems from Isle Royale (Ridgeway Press 2015), Abeyance (Frank Cat Press Chapbook Award 2007), Quatrains (Pudding House 2006), Significant Others (Main Street Rag 2005), and Mutual Shores (New Issues 2000). He is the editor of Isle Royale from the AIR: Poems, Stories, and Songs from 25 Years of Artists-in-Residence (Caffeinated Press 2107) and Imported Breads: Literature of Cultural Exchange (Mammoth 2003). Professor emeritus at Ferris State University, he served as the founding coordinator of the Literature In Person (LIP) Reading Series, until his retirement in 2013.