Philip Memmer is the author of six books of poems, including Cairns (Lost Horse Press, 2022), Pantheon (Lost Horse Press, 2019), The Storehouses of the Snow (Lost Horse Press, 2012), Lucifer: A Hagiography (winner of the 2008 Idaho Prize for Poetry from Lost Horse Press), Threat of Pleasure (Word Press, 2008; winner of the 2009 Adirondack Literary Award for Poetry), and Sweetheart, Baby, Darling (Word Press, 2004), as well as three chapbooks.

Memmer’s poems have appeared in many journals, including Poetry, Poetry London, Poetry Northwest, Tar River Poetry, and Mid-American Review; in such anthologies as 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day (ed. Billy Collins) and Don’t Leave Hungry: Fifty Years of Southern Poetry Review; in the Library of Congress’s Poetry 180 website; and in the American Life in Poetry syndicated column. His many awards and honors include two Hawthornden Fellowships, and a 2023 Individual Artist Grant from the New York State Council on the Arts.

Since 2000, Memmer has served as Executive Director of the Arts Branch of the YMCA of Central New York in Syracuse, where he founded the YMCA’s Downtown Writers Center in 2001. He also is Publisher at Tiger Bark Press, and occasionally teaches creative writing at Hamilton College.