Philip Schultz

Philip Schultz (b. 1945 in Rochester, New York) is an American poet, and the founder/director of The Writers Studio, a private school for fiction and poetry writing based in New York City.

Life
Schultz was born in Rochester, New York. He is the author of several collections of poetry, including his most recent Failure (2007), Living in the Past (2004), and The Holy Worm of Praise (2002), all published by Harcourt. He is also the author of Deep Within the Ravine ( Viking 1984) Like Wings (Viking 1978), and the poetry chapbook, My Guardian Angel Stein (1986). His work has been published in The New Yorker,  Partisan Review,  The New Republic,  The Paris Review,  Slate, among other magazines, and he is the recipient of a  Fulbright Fellowship in Poetry to Israel and a 2005  Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry. He has also received, among others, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry (1981), a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry (1985), as well as the Levinson Prize from  Poetry magazine.

Schultz founded The Writers Studio in 1987 after spending four years as the founder and director of New York University's graduate creative writing program. The Writers Studio utilizes a method that emphasizes technique and emotional connection, making writers aware of the distinction between the actual writer and a narrative persona. Today it features an online program, workshops in New York City, San Francisco and Tucson, as well as a celebrated reading series in New York City.

Philip Schultz lives in East Hampton, NY with his wife, sculptor Monica Banks and their two sons, Elias and August.

Recognition
Schultz's collection Like Wings won the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award and was nominated for a  National Book Award. Deep Within the Ravine was the Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets; Failure was a co-winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.

Publications

 * Like Wings. New York: Viking Penguin, 1978.
 * Deep Within the Ravine. New York: Viking Penguin, 1984
 * My Guardian Angel Stein. State Street Press, 1986
 * The Holy Worm of Praise. New York: Harcourt, 2002.
 * Living in the Past. New York: Harcourt, 2004.
 * Failure. New York: Harcourt, 2007.
 * The God of Loneliness: Selected and new poems. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.
 * My Dyslexia. New York: Norton, 2011.