Carl Phillips

Carl Phillips’s latest book of poems is Scattered Snows, to the North ( 2024). His Then the War: And Selected Poems 2007-2020 (2022) won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize. Other honors include the Jackson Poetry Prize, the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award in Poetry, the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, and awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Academy of American Poets, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Library of Congress. Phillips has also written three prose books, most recently My Trade Is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing (2022). He lives on Cape Cod, in Massachusetts.