Phillip B. Williams is a Chicago, IL native. He is the author of the poetry collection an Thief in the Interior, which was the winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and a Lambda Literary Award, and Mutiny, which was a finalist for the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection and the winner of a 2022 American Book Award.
Williams is also the recipient of a Whiting Award and fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and the National Endowment for the Arts.
His debut novel Ours was a finalist for the James Tait Black Prize.
He is a professor of creative writing at Rice University and founding faculty member of Randolph College.
