Pride and Poetry, According to Emilia Phillips
![Emilia Phillips at their book reading for "Nonbinary Bird of Paradise" at Scuppernong Books.](https://wgss.uncg.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/EmiliaPhillipsFeature-1024x577.jpg)
A UNCG professor since 2017, Phillips is an associate professor of creative writing where they teach poetry workshops and serve as core poetry faculty for the Masters of Fine Art in Creative Writing. Phillips also has cross-appointments in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and English departments teaching the Queer Poetry and Poetics class and the Women’s Health and Bodies class to undergraduates.