
Phillip B. Williams
Picador Guest Professor in the summer semester of 2025
Phillip B. Williams is a Chicago, Illinois native and currently on tour with his new novel, OURS, published by Penguin/Viking in 2024, which were translated and published in the same year to German at S.Fischer Verlag. He is the author of two collections of poetry: Thief in the Interior (ALICE JAMES BOOKS, 2016), which was the winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and a Lambda Literary Award, and Mutiny (Penguin Books, 2021), which was a finalist for the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection and the winner of a 2022 American Book Award. Williams is also the recipient of a Whiting Award and fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and the National Endowment for the Arts. He teaches at NYU Creative Writing MFA and Randolph College low-res MFA.


