Rowan Ricardo Phillips

Rowan Ricardo Phillips is a poet, author, academic, translator, journalist, and screenwriter. Phillips is the author of The Ground, Heaven, The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey, and Living Weapon; all published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He has also published the influential critical study When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness, which will be republished by FSG in 2021. His screenplay for the film Clemente, based on Pulitzer-Prize winner David Maraniss' biography of baseball icon Roberto Clemente, is set to be directed by Oscar-winner Ezra Edelman. Phillips has been the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Nicolás Guillén Outstanding Book Award, the Pen/Osterweil Prize for Poetry, the Anisfield-Wolf book award, and the GLCA New Writers Award; he has also been a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry, the NAACP Image Award for Poetry, and has been a long-listed finalist for the National Book Award, and the PEN Open Boo