Philip Schultz (born 1945 in

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) is an American poet, and the founder/director of The Writers Studio, a private school for fiction and poetry writing based in New York City. He is the author of several collections of poetry, including ''The God of Loneliness, Selected and New Poems'' (

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, 2010); ''

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'' ( Harcourt, 2007), winner of the 2008

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in Poetry; ''Living in the Past'' (Harcourt, 2004); and ''The Holy Worm of Praise'' (Harcourt, 2002). He is also the author of ''Deep Within the Ravine''

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, 1984), which was the

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of the

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; ''Like Wings'' (Viking Penguin, 1978, winner of an American Academy & Institute of Arts and Letters Award as well as a National Book Award nomination), and the poetry chapbook, ''My Guardian Angel Stein'' (1986). His work has been published in

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, and Five Points, among others, and he is the recipient of a

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Fellowship in Poetry to Israel and a 2005

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in Poetry. He has also received, among others, a

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Fellowship in Poetry (1981), a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry (1985), as well as the Levinson Prize from

. Schultz is also the author of ''The Wherewithal''

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, published in February 2014, as well as two memoirs, ''My Dyslexia'', published by

in 2011 and ''Comforts of the Abyss: The Art of Persona Writing'', published by

in 2022.

Works

*''Like Wings'', Viking Penguin, 1978 *''Deep Within the Ravine'', Viking Penguin, 1984 *''My Guardian Angel Stein'', State Street Press, 1986 *''The Holy Worm of Praise'', Harcourt, 2002 *''Living in the Past'', Harcourt, 2004 *''Failure'', Harcourt, 2007 *''The God of Loneliness: Selected and New Poems'', Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010 *''My Dyslexia'', W. W. Norton & Company, 2011 *''The Wherewithal'', W. W. Norton & Company, 2014 *"Bleecker Street" *''Comforts of the Abyss'', W.W. Norton & Company, 2022

References

The Writers Studio: Director's page"The 2008 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Fiction". www.pulitzer.org. Retrieved 2022-05-25.

External links

The Writers Studio"Poet vs. Novelist," essay by Schultz, May 24, 2014Philip Schultz interviewed about his memoir ''My Dyslexia'', Oct. 2011
*[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C05E5D61339F933A2575AC0A9669C8B63 The New York Times, "New Yorkers & Co.; Open Your Checkbook, Then Just Open a Vein" by Leslie Berger, September 10, 2000]
Poets & Writers Magazine, "Trying on Voices for Size" by Duncan Bock, March/April 1998Publishers Weekly Review of ''Comforts of the Abyss: The Art of Persona Writing''Kirkus Review, "Insightful encouragement for writers facing their own 'shitbird.'"
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