Geneva Phillips

Geneva Phillips is the author of Disappearing in Glimpses (Mongrel Empire Press, 2020), a creative nonfiction memoir. She has been published in the Columbia Journal, and has poetry and memoir contributions in three editions of the PEN Prison Writing Awards Anthology Series. She co-facilitates for Poetic Justice, a therapeutic writing program and nationally recognized nonprofit that helps incarcerated women find their voices, discover hope, and empowers them to change.

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 Phillips

Prison and Justice Writing
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

Prison and Justice Writing
Monday August 6

Five Haiku Plus Two

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