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Emilia Phillips [1]

Listed as: 
Creative Nonfiction Writer, Poet
Public address: 
Greensboro, NC
North Carolina US
Email: 
phillips.emilia@gmail.com
Bio: 

Emilia Phillips is the author of two poetry collections from the University of Akron Press, Signaletics (2013) and Groundspeed (2016), and three chapbooks, most recently Beneath the Ice Fish Like Souls Look Alike (Bull City Press, 2015). Her poems and lyric essays appear widely in literary publications including Agni, Boston Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and elsewhere. She’s an assistant professor in the MFA Writing Program and the Department of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her third book, Empty Clip, will be published by the University of Akron Press Spring 2018. Phillips is at work on a new poetry manuscript titled Thunder Thighs, a collection of lyric essays called Wound Revisions, and craft essays for the Ploughshares Blog.

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
English
Born in: 
Chattanooga, TN
Tennessee
Website: 
https://emiliaphillips.com [2]
Prizes won: 

FELLOWSHIPS

Peter Taylor Fellowship, Kenyon Review Writers' Workshop (2015); Bread Loaf Writers' Conference (2013); 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

StoryQuarterly's 2015 Nonfiction Prize, selected by Leslie Jamison; Editor's Choice, 2012 Akron Poetry Prize; The Journal's 2012 Poetry Prize, selected by G.C. Waldrep.

What I'm reading now: 
Brutal Imagination by Cornelius Eady
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Darkening Trapeze by Larry Levis
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
Ordinary Light by Tracy K. Smith
Prefers to work with: 
Adults
Any

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