Rowan Ricardo Phillips is a poet, essayist, and translator. He is the author of seven books. His honors include a Whiting Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Poetry, The Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista Outstanding Book Award, the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing, and an Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Phillips divides his time between New York and Barcelona. He is Presidential Professor and Distinguished Professor in English at Stony Brook University.

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