ROWAN RICARDO PHILLIPS is the author of seven previous books of poetry, prose, and translation. He has been the recipient of a Whiting Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing, the Nicolás Guillén Outstanding Book Award, the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award, and the GLCA New Writers Award. Phillips has also been a finalist for the Griffin International Poetry Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry, and an NAACP Image Award, and has been longlisted for the National Book Award for Poetry. He is a professor of English at Stony Brook University in New York and the poetry editor of The New Republic. His book in progress, I Just Want Them to Remember Me: Black Baseball in America, will be published by FSG in 2025. He lives in New York City and Barcelona.