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Philip Schultz | |
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| Born | (1945-01-06)January 6, 1945 (age 81) 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 |
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Philip Schultz (born 1945 inRochester, New York) is an American poet. His poetry collectionFailure won 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.
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 aFulbright Fellowship in Poetry to Israel and a 2005Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry.
Amongst other honors, Schultz has received aNational Endowment for the Arts Fellowship 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 Prize in 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 Selection of theAcademy of American Poets;Like Wings (1978, winner of anAmerican Academy & Institute of Arts and Letters Award as well as aNational Book Award nomination), and the poetry chapbook,My Guardian Angel Stein (1986).
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