Robert PhillipsRobert Phillips, poet, fiction writer, critic, and former chairman of the National Book Award for poetry, is the author or editor of more than thirty books, three of which were named a Memorable Book of the Year by The New York Times. Phillips has inividual collections of poetry with such publishers as Doubleday, Johns Hopkins University Press, and Ontario Review Press, and among his many prizes are the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a CAPS Grant from the New York State Council on the Arts, a National Public Radio Fiction Prize, a Pushcart Prize, and fellowships from Yaddo, the MacDowell Arts Colony, and the Djerassi Foundation. He is the former director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston, where he held an endowed chair as a John and Rebecca Moores University Professor. Read More Read Less