Phillis Levin's fifth collection, Mr. Memory & Other Poems, was published by Penguin Books in March 2016. Levin is the author of four other volumes of poetry: Temples and Fields (University of Georgia Press, 1988), The Afterimage (Copper Beech Press, 1995), Mercury (Penguin, 2001), and May Day (Penguin, 2008). She is the editor of The Penguin Book of the Sonnet: 500 Years of a Classic Tradition in English (Penguin, 2001); a separate edition of this anthology was published in the United Kingdom by Allen Lane/The Penguin Press (2001). Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Grand Street, Poetry, The Nation, The New Republic, Paris Review, Kenyon Review, PN Review, The Poetry Review, Literary Imagination, AGNI, Verse, Poetry Northwest, TriQuarterly, Plume, Yale Review, Southwest Review, and Poetry London, among other places, and have been published in numerous anthologies, including Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry (edited by Billy Collins), Poets for Life: 76 Poets Respond to AIDS (edited by Michael Klein), The Best American Poetry (1989, 1998, and 2009 editions), The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing (edited by Kevin Young), Poems of New York (edited by Elizabeth Schmidt), The Plume Anthology of Poetry Volume 3 and Volume 4 (edited by Daniel Lawless), and in many editions of the Alhambra Poetry Calendar. Translations of her poems have been published in Argentina, Peru, Slovenia, Poland, Hungary, Croatia, and Israel. She collaborated with Slovenian poet Tomaz Šalamun on rendering his work into English, and has also worked on collaborative translations with the Hungarian poet Istvan Voros and the Polish poet and biographer Agata Tuszynska. In 2012 The Center for Book Arts in New York published Tabula Rasa, a limited edition letterpress chapbook. 

Levin's honors include an Ingram Merrill Foundation Grant, the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award, a Fulbright Scholar Award to Slovenia, the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship (living mostly in Florence and Rome, with time spent in Umbria and in Cairo), a Bogliasco Fellowship to the Liguria Study Center, the Richard Hugo Prize from Poetry Northwest, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. From 1985 to 1997 she was an editor of Boulevard magazine, and she was Guest Poetry Co-Editor for the 2009 Pushcart Prize XXXIII Best of the Small Presses. Beginning in 1997 she served as Director, and then as Co-Director (with Vijay Seshadri), of the Campbell Corner Poetry Prize, a national competition founded by philosophy professor Elfie Raymond at Sarah Lawrence College. She was an Elector (2003 to 2008) of the American Poets’ Corner of The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine in New York, and has also served on the Executive Council of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers.

Phillis Marna Levin was born in Paterson, New Jersey and is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. From 1989 to 2001 she was a full-time member of the creative writing faculty at the University of Maryland, College Park. From 1993 to 2006 she taught poetry workshops and tutorials at The Unterberg Poetry Center of The 92nd Street Y in New York. She has taught prosody and poetics seminars in the MFA program at The New School, and from 2001 to 2007 taught poetry workshops and craft courses as a visiting professor in the MFA program at New York University. Since 2001 she is a professor of English and the poet-in-residence at Hofstra University.

Website: www.phillislevin.com

Publications

• Mr. Memory & Other Poems , Penguin (March 29, 2016)
• Tabula Rasa (a limited edition letterpress chapbook) , The Center for Book Arts in New York (September 15, 2012)
• May Day , Penguin (April 29, 2008)
• The Penguin Book of the Sonnet: 500 Years of a Classic Tradition in English, Edited and with an Introduction and Notes by Phillis Levin , Penguin (November 1, 2001)
• Mercury , Penguin (April 3, 2001)
• The Afterimage , Copper Beech Press (October 1, 1995)
• Temples and Fields , The University of Georgia Press (November 1, 1988)

Awards

• National Endowment for the Arts, Literature Fellowship in Poetry(2007)
• Richard Hugo Prize from Poetry Northwest(2006)
• Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship(2003)
• Elector, The Poets' Corner, The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in New York(2003)
• Visiting Artist, American Academy in Rome(2003)
• The Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship(2000)
• Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship(2000)
• Writer-in-Residence, Slovene Writers' Association(1997)
• Fulbright Scholar Award to Slovenia(1995)
• Walter E. Dakin Fellow in Poetry, Sewanee Writers' Conference(1991)
• Outstanding Teacher Award, The University of Maryland at College Park(1991)
• Margaret Bridgman Fellow in Poetry, The Bread Loaf Writers' Conference(1989)
• Norma Farber First Book Award from The Poetry Society of America(1989)
• Poetry Fellow, Wesleyan Writers Conference(1988)
• Ingram Merrill Foundation Grant in Poetry(1986)

Employment

• Professor of English and Poet-in-Residence at Hofstra University (January 2001 - )
• Visiting Professor, The Graduate Writing Program at New York University (September 2001 - December 2007)
• Writing Faculty at The Unterberg Poetry Center of The 92nd Street Y in New York (October 1993 - November 2006)
• Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at The University of Maryland at College Park (August 1995 - January 2001)
• Guest Faculty, Graduate Program in Creative Writing at The New School (March 1998 - March 1999)
• Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at The Johns Hopkins University (September 1992 - May 1993)
• Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at The University of Maryland at College Park (August 1989 - January 2001)

Degrees

• Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, Psychology, Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College (May 1976)
• Master of Arts in Poetry from The Writing Seminars, The Johns Hopkins University (May 1977)

Genres of Interest

Creative nonfiction, Playwriting, Children's literature , Poetry