Xan Forest Phillips, a poet hailing from rural Ohio, is the acclaimed author of Hull (Nightboat Books, 2019) and a recipient of the Whiting Award. He is the 2024-2026 Anisfield-Wolf Fellow in writing and publishing at Cleveland State University, and has received fellowships in the past from Brown University, Callaloo, Cave Canem, the Conversation Literary Festival, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, the Sewanee Writers Conference, and the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics. Xan is the recipient of the Lambda Literary Award, the 2023 Oscar Williams and Gene Derwood Award, and a 2022 Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh grant. His poetry has been translated into Spanish, Czech, and Slovenian. Xan’s poetry can be found in Berlin Quarterly Review, Bomb Magazine, Crazyhorse, Poets.org, Virginia Quarterly review, and elsewhere. He is represented by Jin Auh at the Wylie Agency.
