Phillip Barron is a poet and philosopher. His first book of poetry, What Comes from a Thing, won the 2015 Michael Rubin Book Award and was published by Fourteen Hills Press. Elsewhere, his poems appear in New American Writing, Brooklyn Rail, Fourteen Hills, and Janus Head. He is a member of the Community of Writers. He has an MFA in creative writing from San Francisco State University and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Connecticut.