Philip Schultz

Philip Schultz
Born	(1945-01-06)January 6, 1945 Rochester, New York,U.S.
Education	University of Louisville San Francisco State University(BA) University of Iowa(MFA)
Notable works	Failure Like Wings My Dyslexia
Notable awards	Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Guggenheim Fellowship Lamont Poetry Selection
Spouse	Monica Banks
Children	2
Website
writerstudio.com

Philip Schultz(born 1945 inRochester, New York) is an American poet. His poetry collectionFailurewon the 2008Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.Schultz is also the founder and director of The Writers Studio, a private school for fiction and poetry writing based in New York City.

Biography

A graduate of theIowa Writers' Workshop,his work has been published inThe New Yorker,The Paris Review,Slate,Poetry magazine,The Gettysburg Review,The Southern Review,andFive Points,among others, and he is the recipient of aFulbrightFellowship in Poetry to Israel and a 2005Guggenheim Fellowshipin Poetry.

Amongst other honors, Schultz has received aNational Endowment for the ArtsFellowship in Poetry (1981), a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry (1985), and the Levinson Prize fromPoetry magazine.

Schultz is the author ofThe Wherewithal,published in February 2014, and two memoirs:My Dyslexia(2011) andComforts of the Abyss: The Art of Persona Writing(2022). He is the author of several collections of poetry, includingThe God of Loneliness, Selected and New Poems(2010);Failure(2007): winner of the 2008Pulitzer Prizein Poetry;Living in the Past(2004); andThe Holy Worm of Praise(Harcourt, 2002).

He is also the author ofDeep Within the Ravine(1984), which was theLamont Poetry Selectionof theAcademy of American Poets;Like Wings(1978, winner of anAmerican Academy & Institute of Arts and LettersAward as well as aNational Book Award nomination), and the poetry chapbook,My Guardian Angel Stein(1986).

Bibliography

• Like Wings,Viking Penguin, 1978
• Deep Within the Ravine,Viking Penguin, 1984
• My Guardian Angel Stein,State Street Press, 1986
• The Holy Worm of Praise,Harcourt, 2002
• Living in the Past,Harcourt, 2004
• Failure,Harcourt, 2007
• The God of Loneliness: Selected and New Poems,Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010
• My Dyslexia,W. W. Norton & Company, 2011
• The Wherewithal,W. W. Norton & Company, 2014
• Luxury,W.W. Norton & Company, 2018
• Comforts of the Abyss,W.W. Norton & Company, 2022

References

• The Writers Studio: Director's page
• "The 2008 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Fiction". www.pulitzer.org. Retrieved 2022-05-25.

External links

• The Writers Studio