Carl Phillips is the author of sixteen books of poetry, most recently Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007–2020 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2022), which won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize. Phillips has also written three prose books, the latest being My Trade Is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing (Yale University Press, 2022). He teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.