Visiting Professor of Creative Writing Rowan Ricardo Phillips will host a workshop to discuss the writing life and the business of writing. He will be joined by contributing writer for The New Yorker, poet and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Eliza Griswold '95. 

Topics will include:

• Different careers or ways to make a living as a writer
• How to submit work to publications and pitch agents
• Practical life management tips to consider as you build a writing career
• Tips on creating a flexible portfolio of work

This workshop is open to Princeton students and alumni. Students can register in Handshake. Alumni interested in registering for this program should email Yee Ho, associate director, career advising. 

Co-presented by the Lewis Center for the Arts and the Center for Career Development. Email Satomi Chudasama to request accommodations for this event at least 15 working days in advance.

Rowan Ricardo Phillips is the author of three books of poetry (The Ground, Heaven, and Living Weapon), two books of non-fiction (When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness and The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey), and a translation from the Catalan of Salvador Espriu's landmark short-story collection, Ariadne in the Grotesque Labyrinth. Phillips is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Nicolás Guillén Outstanding Book Award, the Pen/Osterweil Prize for Poetry, the Anisfield-Wolf book award, and the GLCA New Writers Award.

He has also been a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry, the NAACP Image Award for Poetry, and has been a long-listed finalist for the National Book Award and the PEN Open Book Award. The Circuit was the winner of the 2019 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sportswriting. His work has been selected as a book of the year by NPR, one of the best poetry collections of the year by The Washington Post among others, and has been featured twice in Best American Poetry. His poetry has been translated into Catalan, German, Italian, Norwegian and Spanish. His screenplay for the film Clemente, based on Pulitzer Prize-winner David Maraniss' biography of baseball icon Roberto Clemente, is set to be directed by Oscar-winner Ezra Edelman. Phillips is the Margaret Scott Bundy Professor of English at Williams College and teaches Creative Writing at Princeton. He lives in New York City, Williamstown, and Barcelona.

Eliza Griswold '95

Eliza Griswold is the author, most recently, of If Men, Then, her second book of poems, and of Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction, in 2019. Griswold has held fellowships at Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the New America Foundation, among others, and has been awarded various prizes, including the Ridenhour Prize and the J. Anthony Lukas Prize for her nonfiction, a PEN/Translation Prize, and the Rome Prize for her poetry.

She is currently a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University and a contributing writer at The New Yorker.

Email Satomi Chudasama to request accommodations for this event at least five working days in advance.