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- Rowan Ricardo Phillips (born 1974 in New York City) is an American poet and writer. He is the author of the poetry collections The Ground (2012), Heaven (2015), and Living Weapon (2020), the non-fiction books When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness and The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey, and a translation from the Catalan of Salvador Espriu's short-story collection Ariadne in the Grotesque Labyrinth. Phillips has been the recipient of a Whiting Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and the Nicolás Guillén Outstanding Book Prize. He won the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry in 2013 and the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sportswriting in 2019. Phillips was one of 32 poets, novelists, playwrights, and short story writers "essential to how we understand our country and its place in the world right now" featured in the 2018 New York Times Style Magazine article and video project "Black Male Writers of Our Time." (en)
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