Xandria Phillips, Author at শুদ্ধস্বর

Xandria Phillips

Xandria Phillips is a Whiting Award-winning poet, and visual artist from rural Ohio. The recipient of a Lambda Literary Award, and the Judith A. Markowitz Award for Emerging Writers, Xandria is the author of HULL (Nightboat Books 2019) and Reasons for Smoking, which won the 2016 Seattle Review chapbook contest judged by Claudia Rankine. They have received several fellowships and are the 2021-2023 Center for African American Poetry and Poetics Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh.

Blackness is My Locus, Not What I Do

By Xandria Phillips / Issue 25, Political Poetry, Magazine / 9 minutes of reading / blackness, poetry, Political Poetry, Queer, trans, USA

How does one transform poetry into an act of rebellion against the mundane? Xandria Phillips discusses their creative process and exploration of history, loss, and abundance. Among other accolades, they have been awarded the Whiting Award (2021) and Lambda Literary Award (2020).

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Xandria Phillips

Blackness is My Locus, Not What I Do

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