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

Education

In 2014, Phillips received a Bachelor of Arts from

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, where they majored in Creative Writing and minored in Africana Studies. While at Oberlin, they served as a board member for the Center for Women and Trans People and completed a two-year research fellowship in Black Poetics. They received a

Master of Fine Arts A Master of Fine Arts (MFA or M.F.A.) is a terminal degree in fine arts, including visual arts, creative writing, graphic design, photography, filmmaking, dance, theatre, other performing arts and in some cases, theatre management or arts admini ...

in Poetry from Virginia Tech in 2016.

Writing

Phillips’ poetry has been featured in ''

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'', '' Poets.org'', '' Virginia Quarterly Review'', ''The Offing'', ''The Journal'', ''

Nashville Review ''Nashville Review'' is an online, MFA student-run literary magazine at Vanderbilt University. A triannual review, Nashville Review publishes fiction, poetry, comics, art, nonfiction, and performance art videos. Past contributors include A ...

'', ''

Ninth Letter ''Ninth Letter'' is a literary magazine that publishes poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. It is an interdisciplinary collaboration between thSchool of Art + Designand the Creative Writing Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaig ...

'', '' Scalawag,'' ''Best Experimental Writing'', and ''We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics''.

Painting

Phillips' painting has appeared in '' The Kenyon Review'', '' Poetry Project'', and ''American Poets Magazine''.

Awards and distinctions

Phillips has received fellowships from

, Cave Canem (2016–2017), The Conversation Literary Festival (2018), Callaloo, the

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(2019–2020),

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

(2020–2021), and University of Pittsburgh's Center for African American Poetry and Poetics (2021–2023). In 2020, they received Lambda Literary's

Judith A. Markowitz Award The Judith A. Markowitz Award for Exceptional New LGBTQ Writers, formerly known as the Dr. Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award and established in 2013, is an annual literary award presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation. The award is granted to ...

for Exceptional New LGBTQ Writers.

Publications

* ''Reasons for Smoking'' (2018) * ''Hull'' (2019)

Anthology contributions

* ''Bettering American Poetry Volume 2'', edited by

Amy King Amy King (born August 4, 1974) is an American poet, essayist, and activist. Early life and education Born in Baltimore, Maryland, King grew up in Stone Mountain, Georgia and received her B.S. in English and women's studies from Towson Univer ...

, Jayy Dodd, Camile Rankine, Muriel Leung, Sarah Clark,

Michael Wasson Michael Wasson (born 1990) is an American Nimíipuu poet from the town of Lenore, Idaho on the Nez Perce Reservation. He currently lives in Fukuoka, Japan. Career Michael Wasson grew up on the Nez Perce reservation in Idaho, and recalls that ...

Joshua Jennifer Espinoza Joshua Jennifer Espinoza (born December 17, 1987) is an American poet from Riverside, California. She is a Visiting Professor of English at Occidental College in Los Angeles, California. Espinoza's works have been published in ''Poetry Magazine ...

, and Héctor Ramírez (2017) * ''The BreakBeat Poets, Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic'', edited by Mahogany L. Browne, Jamila Woods, and Idrissa Simmonds (2018) * ''Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry'', edited by Joanne V. Gabbin and

Lauren K. Alleyne Lauren K. Alleyne (born June 8, 1979) is a Trinidadian-American poet, fiction, and nonfiction writer and educator born and raised in the dual-island Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago. Biography In 1997, Alleyne moved to the United States to ...

(2019)

References

External links

* Living people Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century African-American artists 21st-century African-American writers 21st-century American LGBT people 21st-century American poets African Americans in Ohio African-American painters African-American poets American non-binary writers American transgender writers African-American LGBT people Oberlin College alumni Poets from Ohio Virginia Tech alumni Writers from Ohio Lambda Literary Award winners {{US-writer-stub