Louis Phillips is a poet, playwright, and short story writer. He has written more than fifty books for children and adults. His sequence of poems, The Time, The Hour, the Solitariness of the Place, was the co-winner in the Swallow's Tale Press competition (1984). Among his published books of poems are The Krazy Kat Rag and Bulkington. His short story collections include A Dream of Countries Where No Dare Live (SMU Press, 1993), The Bus to the Moon (Fort Schuyler Press, 2002), as well as THE WOMAN WHO WROTE KING LEAR (2008), and MUST I WEEP FOR THE DANCING BEAR (2012), both out from Pleasure Boat Studio. He teaches at the School of Visual Arts in NYC.
