Phillip B. Williams

born in Chicago in 1986, is the author of the novel »Ours« [Viking, 2024], and the full-length poetry collections »Mutiny« [Penguin Poetry, 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. He is Picador guest professor for literature at the University of Leipzig in the summer semester of 2025.