Xan Phillips

Xan Forest Phillips is an American poet and visual artist from rural Ohio.

Education In 2014, Phillips received a Bachelor of Arts from Oberlin College, where he majored in Creative Writing and minored in Africana Studies. While at Oberlin, he completed a two-year research fellowship in Black Poetics.

Awards and distinctions Phillips has received fellowships from Oberlin College, Cave Canem (2016–2017), The Conversation Literary Festival (2018), Callaloo, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing (2019–2020), Brown University (2020–2021),

In 2020, he received Lambda Literary's Judith A. Markowitz Award for Exceptional New LGBTQ Writers.

In 2024, Phillips was announced as the 2024-2026 Anisfield-Wolf Fellow in Writing & Publishing at Cleveland State University. +Awards for Phillips' writingYearWorkAward / HonorResultRef.2021HULLWhiting Award for PoetryWinner

Publications

Reasons for Smoking (2018) Hull (2019)

Anthology contributions

Bettering American Poetry Volume 2, edited by Amy King, Jayy Dodd, Camile Rankine, Muriel Leung, Sarah Clark, Michael Wasson, Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, and Héctor Ramírez (2017) Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry, edited by Joanne V. Gabbin and Lauren K. Alleyne (2019)