Xan Forest Phillips, a poet hailing from rural Ohio, is the acclaimed author of HULL (Nightboat Books, 2019) and a recipient of the Whiting Award. He has been awarded fellowships from Brown University, Callaloo, Cave Canem, The Conversation Literary Festival, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, the Sewanee Writers Conference, and the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics. Xan is the recipient of the Lambda Literary Award, the 2023 Oscar Williams and Gene Derwood Award, and a 2022 Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh Grant. His poetry has been translated into Spanish, Czech, and Slovenian. Xan’s poetry can be found in Berlin Quarterly Review, BOMB Magazine, Crazyhorse, Poets.org, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere.
Our thanks to all who submitted applications this cycle, which was open only to writers who have been residents of Ohio for at least two consecutive years, for any period before the fellowship’s start in August 2024. The fellowship will re-open for applications in the winter of 2025.
The Anisfield-Wolf Fellowship in Writing & Publishing offers an emerging writer time to work toward a first or second book and professional experience teaching creative writing and engaging in publishing and community-oriented literary work in collaboration with the CSU Poetry Center and English Department.
