Stopping at Texaco a Year After My Brother’s Death

Emilia Phillips (she/her/hers) is the author of three poetry collections from the University of Akron Press, most recently Empty Clip (2018), and four chapbooks, including Hemlock (Diode Editions, 2019). Winner of a 2019 Pushcart Prize, Phillips has published poems, lyric essays, and book reviews in The American Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, Kenyon Review, AGNI, New England Review, The New York Times, Ploughshares, Poetry, and elsewhere. She’s assistant professor of creative writing in the MFA Writing Program and the Department of English at UNC Greensboro. (updated 12/2019)