Phillis Levin is the author of four collections of poetry: TEMPLES AND FIELDS (University of Georgia Press, 1988); THE AFTERIMAGE (Copper Beech Press, 1995); MERCURY (Penguin, 2001); and, most recently, MAY DAY (Penguin, 2008). She is also the editor of THE PENGUIN BOOK OF THE SONNET: 500 Years of a Classic Tradition in English.

Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, Grand Street, the Nation, the New Republic and the Kenyon Review, as well as international publications, and have been included in multiple anthologies. Translations of her poems have been published in around the world.

A few of her numerous honors include: an Ingram Merrill grant, a 1995 Fulbright Fellowship, a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship, and a 2007 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.

She is a professor of English and the poet-in-residence at Hofstra University and also teaches at New York University.