Patrick Phillips’s third collection of poems, Elegy for a Broken Machine (Knopf, 2015), was a finalist for the National Book Award. His first book of nonfiction, Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America (Norton 2016), won an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation and was named a best book for the year by the New York Times, the Boston Globe, and Smithsonian. Phillips is a former Guggenheim and NEA fellow, and teaches at Stanford University.
Read the winning piece of our 2025 Nonfiction Contest “Through the Mirror” by Jessie Cato selected by Lucy Ives.
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