Rowan Ricardo Phillips is a highly acclaimed, multi-award-winning poet, author, screenwriter, academic, journalist, and translator. He is Distinguished Professor of English at Stony Brook University. His poetry collections include The Ground (FSG, 2012), Heaven (FSG, 2015), Living Weapon (FSG, 2020), and most recently, Silver (FSG, 2024). He is also the author of When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness and the nonfiction book The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey. His translations, primarily from Catalan, have appeared widely; including his translation of Salvador Espriu’s classic short-story collection Ariadne and the Grotesque Labyrinth (Dalkey Archive, 2012). Phillips is a regular contributor to The New York Times Magazine, the President of the Board of the New York Institute of the Humanities, and the poetry editor of The New Republic. He has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including the Nicolás Guillén Outstanding Book Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing, a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry, a Whiting Award, and the GLCA New Writers Award. Also a renowned sportswriter, Phillips is a curatorial consultant to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. His book in progress, I Just Want Them to Remember Me: Black Baseball in America, will be published by FSG in 2025.
Erica McAlpine is Associate Professor of English at Oxford University and the A. C. Cooper Fellow in English at St Edmund Hall. Her most recent book, The Poet’s Mistake (Princeton, 2020), catalogs the various mistakes poets have made in poems over the past several centuries well as the complicated ways that literary critics have responded to such mistakes over time. It was a Times Literary Supplement “Book of the Year” and won the British Academy’s Rose Mary Crawshay Prize. In addition to her teaching and scholarship, Erica is also a practicing poet and translator. The Country Gambler, her collection of poems and translations from Horace, was published by Shearsman Books in 2016. At Oxford, she co-runs a poetry reading group called the Salutation and Cat as well as a reading series at St Edmund Hall called Meet the Poet. Her poetry has appeared in magazines including The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic, Slate, The Yale Review, The New Criterion, The American Scholar, and the Times Literary Supplement.
Srikanth Reddy is a poet, literary editor, and occasional book critic. He is Professor of English at the University of Chicago, where he teaches classes on parody, obscenity, and contemporary literary publishing. His latest book of poetry, Underworld Lit, was a finalist for the Griffin International Poetry Prize, the T.S. Eliot Four Quartets Prize, and a 2020 TLS Book of the Year. His previous book, Voyager, was named one of the best books of poetry in 2011 by The New Yorker, The Believer, and National Public Radio; and his first collection, Facts for Visitors, received the 2005 Asian American Literary Award for Poetry. Currently, he is the poetry editor of The Paris Review, and—with Rosa Alcalá, Douglas Kearney, and Katie Peterson—he edits the Phoenix Poets book series at the University of Chicago Press. His writing on contemporary poetry has appeared in venues like The New York Times and Lana Turner. Oxford University Press published his critical study, Changing Subjects: Digressions in Modern American Poetry in 2012. A book of his lectures on poetry, The Unsignificant: Three Talks on Poetry and Pictures, is forthcoming with Wave Books.
Katie Peterson is the Director of the Graduate Creative Writing Program at the University of California at Davis, where she is Professor of English and a Chancellor’s Fellow. She is also a Consulting Editor for the Phoenix Poets Series at the University of Chicago Press.Her most recent book of poetry Fog and Smoke, was published by FSG this Spring. Her other books of poetry include This One Tree (New Issues, 2006), Permission (New Issues, 2013), The Accounts (University of Chicago, 2013), and A Piece of Good News (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2019), a finalist for the Northern California Book Award in 2020. She is the editor of the New Selected Poems of Robert Lowell (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2017). Her work has been translated into French, Korean, and Portuguese, and a Selected Poems in French (translated by Aude Pivin), with an introduction by Louise Glück, will be published by Cheyne Editeur in 2024. Her work has been recognized with awards and fellowships, including the Rilke Prize from the University of North Texas for The Accounts, a Literature award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and a fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
