Phillip B. Williams

Phillip B. Williams
Williams at Los Angeles Public Library
Born	1986 (age 30–31) Chicago, Illinois
Occupation	Poet, spoken-word performer
Nationality	American
Genre	Poetry
Notable awards	Kate Tufts Discovery Award, Whiting Award for Poetry

Phillip B. Williams (born 1986 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American poet and spoken-word performer. He is the author of the chapbooks Bruised Gospels (Arts in Bloom Inc., 2011), Burn (YesYes Books, 2013), and Thief in the Interior (Alice James Books, 2016). His poetry has been included in Callaloo, The Kenyon Review Online, The Southern Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, West Branch, and Blackbird. Williams is a Cave Canem graduate and the poetry editor of the online journal Vinyl Poetry. He is a Chancellor’s Graduate fellow at Washington University, St. Louis, completing a MFA in creative writing.. His work has been praised for its "devout and excruciating attention to the line [whose] indispensible music fuses his implacable understanding of words with their own shadows."

Thief in the Interior was the winner of the 2017 Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the 2017 Whiting Award for Poetry.