Patrick Phillips is an American poet, professor, and translator. His most recent poetry collection is Elegy for a Broken Machine (Alfred A. Knopf, 2015). His poems have appeared in many magazines, including Poetry, Ploughshares, The American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, DoubleTake, New England Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review, and have been featured on Garrison Keillor's show The Writer's Almanac on National Public Radio.