Lance Phillips was born on an Army base in Stuttgart, Germany (West Germany at the time of his birth) in 1970. He grew up in many places, including: Las Vegas, NV, Del Rio, TX, New Castle, PA, and Charlotte, NC. He attended the University of North Carolina at Charlotte for his BA in English and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop for his MFA in poetry. He has taught poetry, creative writing, American literature, and cultural criticism in high school, community college, university, and continuing education programs. 

He has published four books of poetry, Corpus Socius, Cur aliquid vidi, These Indicium Tales, and Mimer with Ahsahta Press, and his fifth book of poetry, Devil-Fictions, is avaiable from BlazeVox Books.  In addition, he published a book of experimental autobiography, Imposture Notebook, with BlazeVox Books in 2008. His work has appeared in many print and online journals, including New American Writing, Volt, Fence, Colorado Review, Slope, Verse, Denver Quarterly, Bennington Review, Bombay Gin, The Tiny, The Elephants, and Fourteen Hills.  His work has been anthologized in The &Now Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing Anthology; Lenoir-Rhyne University’s tribute to Black Mountain College: Far From the Centers of Ambition anthology; The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel; and Fence Magazine’s A Best Of Fence: The First Nine Years. He lives in Huntersville, NC with his wife and has two grown children. 

If you are interested in scheduling a reading, class, or chat please contact Lance here.