Patrick Phillips' first book, Chattahoochee, received the 2005 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and his second, Boy, was published by the University of Georgia Press in 2008. His poems have appeared in many magazines, including Poetry, Ploughshares, and The American Poetry Review, and his translations of the Danish poet Henrik Nordbrandt received the Translation Prize of the American-Scandinavian Foundation. He has been a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Copenhagen, and teaches writing and literature at Drew University.