Phillis Levin was born in Paterson, New Jersey, and educated at Sarah Lawrence College and Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of five previous poetry collections, including, most recently, Mr. Memory & Other Poems, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and is the editor of The Penguin Book of the Sonnet. Winner of the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award, she is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholar Award to Slovenia and fellowships from the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Trust of Amy Lowell. She has been awarded residencies to the American Academy in Rome, Bogliasco, MacDowell, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Yaddo. Her work has appeared in AGNI, The Atlantic, The Best American Poetry, The Kenyon Review, The Nation, The New Republic, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Plume, Poetry, Poetry London, Raritan, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. Levin has taught at the University of Maryland and New York University, and is Professor of English and Poet-in-Residence Emerita at Hofstra University. She lives with her husband in New York and West Cornwall, Connecticut.
