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Patrick Phillips

Eavan Boland Professor
Professor of English
Patrick Phillips

Patrick Phillips is the author of Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America, which was named a best book of the year by the New York Times, the Boston Globe, and Smithsonian, and received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. He is also the author of three poetry collections, including Elegy for a Broken Machine, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and Chattahoochee, winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Prize. Phillips has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, Carnegie Foundation,  and a Cullman Center for Writers fellowship at the New York Public Library, a Fulbright fellowship at the University of Copenhagen, and the Lyric Poetry Award of the Poetry Society of America. He teaches writing and literature at Stanford.

Contact

Telephone
(650) 723-0504
Office
460-218

Office Hours

By appointment

Research Interests

Specialization(s)
American Literature-Poetry
British Literature-17th Century
British Literature-Poetry