Rowan Ricardo Phillips is the author of the poetry collections The Ground, Heaven, Living Weapon, and Silver, and of The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey, winner of the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing. His next book, I Just Want Them to Remember Me: Black Baseball in America, will be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2027. His honors include a Whiting Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is Presidential Professor and Distinguished Professor of English at Stony Brook University and the poetry editor of The New Republic. He lives in New York and Barcelona.