Philip Schultz’s most recent books, both from W. W. Norton, are The Wherewithal, a novel in verse, and Luxury, a poetry collection. With Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Schultz released The God of Loneliness: Selected and New Poems and Failure, the winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in poetry. His work in progress, Comforts of the Abyss, will be published by Norton in 2021. He founded and directs the Writers Studio, a private school for creative writing, with branches in Manhattan, Tucson, San Francisco, and the Hudson Valley.