Philip Schultzwon the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Failure in 2008. He is the founder and director of The Writers Studio, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary next year. His most recent collection, Enormous Morning (W.W. Norton 2026) was preceded by Luxury (Norton 2022) and The Wherewithal, a novel in verse (W.W. Norton 2014). He is also the author of two memoirs, My Dyslexia (W.W. Norton 2011) and Comforts of the Abyss: The Art of Persona Writing (W.W. Norton 2022). His six other poetry collections are The God of Loneliness (Harcourt 2010), Living in the Past (Harcourt 2004), The Holy Worm of Praise (Harcourt 2002), the chapbook My Guardian Angel Stein (1986), Deep Within the Ravine (Viking 1984, recipient of The Academy of American Poets’ Lamont Prize) and Like Wings (Viking 1978, winner of an American Academy & Institute of Arts and Letters Award as well as a National Book Award nomination). He the recipient of a 2005 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry and received poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts, a Fulbright scholarship, as well as the Levinson Prize from Poetry magazine.
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