Caryl Phillips
Caryl Phillips is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including Color Me English: Reflections on Migration and Belonging (The New Press). His novel A Distant Shore won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and his other awards include the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim fellowship, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Phillips is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of the Arts and is a regular contributor to The Guardian and the New Republic. He is a professor of English at Yale University and lives in New York City.
