Meet AWF Writer in Residence Rowan Ricardo Phillips

Note: This is a past event, additional resources may be available below.

Date

Thu Dec 5, 2013
6:00pm – 7:00pm

Location

Aspen, CO, United States
Woody Creek Community Center

Rowan Ricardo Phillips is the author of “THE GROUND: poems” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012), winner of the 2013 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writer Award in Poetry, a finalist for the 2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry, and a finalist for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry. He is also the author of a book of criticism, “When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness” (Dalkey Archive Press, 2010), and the translator of Salvador Espriu’s classic Catalan collection of short stories, Ariadne in the Grotesque Labyrinth (Dalkey Archive Press, 2012). Born and raised in New York City, he is a graduate of Swarthmore College and Brown University, where he attained his doctorate in English Literature.

Phillips has taught in Harvard’s History and Literature Program and Columbia’s Graduate School of the Arts, and is currently an associate professor of English at Stony Brook University, where he directs the Po etry Center.

This event is free and open to the public. 

For more information on the Writer in Residence program, visit the Aspen Writers’ Foundation website.

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