Pastoral, Not Withstanding

Phillip B. Williams is author of the novel Ours (Viking, 2024) and the full-length poetry collections Mutiny (Penguin Poets, 2021), winner of the 2022 American Book Award, and Thief in the Interior (Alice James Books, 2016), winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, a Whiting Award, and a Lambda Literary Award, all in 2017. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Boston Review, Callaloo, The Kenyon Review, The New Republic, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. A nominee for an NAACP Image Award in poetry, Williams is the recipient of fellowships from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. He serves as a faculty member in the MFA programs of New York University and Randolph College.