Xandria Phillips

Xandria Phillips is a writer, educator, and abstract artist from rural Ohio. Their work often dishevels the line between personal and collective in regards to generational trauma facing queer people of African descent. Their first book, HULL (Nightboat Books 2019), won the 2020 Lambda Literary Award for Trans Poetry. Xandria’s paintings have appeared in Kenyon Review, The Poetry Project, and American Poets Magazine. The recipient of the Judith A. Markowitz Award for Emerging Writers, Xandria has received fellowships from Callaloo, Cave Canem, The Conversation Literary Festival, Oberlin College, and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing.