Geneva J. Phillips

Geneva Phillips is currently finishing up an 18-year sentence at the Dr. Eddie Warrior Correctional Facility in Taft, Ok. She recently placed 2nd in the Arts for Justice Prison Writer’s Challenge (2022). She also has enjoyed publication in Columbia: a Journal of Art and Literature (Spring Issue #57) and the publication of her first book Disappearing in Glimpses, a creative nonfiction memoir (Mongrel Empire Press 2020). She is heavily involved with Poetic Justice (Oklahoma), a therapeutic writing nonprofit where she writes poetry and creates art.

Winner, 2022 PEN America Prison Writing Contest – 3rd Place in Nonfiction Memoir for “The Hard Part

2018 PEN America Prison Writing Contest – Honorable Mention in Poetry for “Five Haiku Plus Two


Articles by Geneva J. Phillips

Wednesday September 7

The Hard Part

Geneva Phillips was awarded 3rd Place in Nonfiction Memoir in the 2022 Prison Writing Contest. Every year, hundreds of imprisoned people from around the country submit poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and dramatic works to PEN America’s Prison Writing Contest, one of the few outlets of free expression for the country’s incarcerated population. There is an exaggerated

Monday August 6

Five Haiku Plus Two

“Razorwire ruins view / Sun setting fire cedars / Phoenix in the ashes”