Patrick Phillips is the author of two poetry collections, Boy and Chattahoochee, which won the 2005 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. His honors include both Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, the Lyric Poetry Award from the Poetry Society of America, a Discovery / The Nation Prize from the 92nd Street Y, and the Translation Prize of the American-Scandinavian Foundation. Elegy for a Broken Machine (Knopf) —Finalist for the 2015 National Book Award in Poetry— bears witness to the small beauties and inevitable losses of our transient life.

NOMINATED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2015