photo by Nancy O. Gallman

Phillip Barron is a poet and philosopher in Portland, Oregon.

His first book of poetry, What Comes from a Thing, was published by Fourteen Hills Press. It won the 2019 Nicolás Guillén Outstanding Book Award from the Caribbean Philosophical Association and the 2015 Michael Rubin Book Award. Elsewhere, his poems appear in New American Writing, Brooklyn Rail, Fourteen Hills, and Janus Head. He is a member of the Community of Writers and the Poetry Editor at Philosophy and Global Affairs.

Currently, Barron has a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Lewis & Clark College, where he teaches classes in philosophy and poetry. He earned a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Connecticut, writing a dissertation on the metaphysics and phenomenology of personal identity. He also has an MFA in poetry from San Francisco State University.  For many years, he worked as a digital media specialist at the National Humanities Center. At UConn, he was a member of the Artificial Intelligence, Mind, and Society (AIMS) and Expression, Communication, and the Origins of Meaning (ECOM) research groups.