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Emilia Phillips (they/them) is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, affiliated with the Department of English, the MFA in Writing Program, and the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program. Their work spans poetry, creative nonfiction, and literary criticism, with notable publications in Agni, American Poetry Review, and The New York Times. Phillips is the author of five poetry collections, including the forthcoming Nonbinary Bird of Paradise (2024), and has received prestigious awards such as the Pushcart Prize and NC Arts Council Fellowship.
Research interests include queer poetics, archival documentation of LGBTQ+ spaces, and intersections of gender, health, and identity. Current projects include a memoir (SQAR), a poetry collection memorializing historical queer spaces, and translations of Chilean poet Macarena Urzúa Opazo. Phillips collaborates with UNCG’s Special Collections on digitizing poetry broadsides and LGBTQIA+ archives, blending creative practice with scholarly engagement.
Awards and fellowships reflect their contributions to literature and academia. Teaching focuses on poetry workshops, queer literary studies, and gender-related health narratives. Phillips has held editorial roles at Ploughshares, 32 Poems, and Blackbird, and participated in residencies worldwide, including Iceland, Portugal, and Catalonia.
