Phillip B. Williams

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC |  Please join us for an event featuring former Bennington faculty Phillip B. Williams! A reading from Williams’ new novel Ours will be followed by a Q&A and book signing.

Phillip B. Williams is the author of Mutiny, winner of the 2022 American Book Award, and Thief in the Interior, which was the winner of the 2017 Kate Tufts Discovery Award and a 2017 Lambda Literary award. He is also the author of the chapbooks Bruised Gospels and Burn. Williams’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Boston Review, Callaloo, Kenyon Review, The New Republic, The New Yorker, and others. He is the recipient of a 2020 creative writing grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, a 2017 Whiting Award, and a 2013 Ruth Lilly Fellowship. He serves as a faculty member at Randolph College low-residency MFA. His debut novel, Ours (Penguin Random House, 2024), is an epic about the spiritual costs of a freedom that demands fierce protection.