Carl Phillips won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007–2020 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022). Born in Everett, Washington, he earned a BA from Harvard University and an MA from Boston University. He is a professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. His earlier collections include Cortège (Graywolf, 1995). His honors include the 2021 Jackson Poetry Prize from Poets & Writers, the Academy of American Poets Fellowship, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Library of Congress.
