Dennis Phillips (born 1951) is an American poet & novelist.
He is the author of A World[1] (1989), Arena [1](1991), Book of Hours[2] (1996), Credence[1] (1996), and Sand[3] (2002), among other works of poetry, as well as the novel Hope[3] (2007).
[4] Phillips attended the California Institute of the Arts, where he studied with Clayton Eshleman.
He is a professor in the Humanities and Science Department at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena,[5] He co-edited the poetry-section of the New Review of Literature, was a founding editor of Littoral Books, the first Book Review Editor of the magazine Sulfur and the L.A. Weekly's first poetry-editor, as well as a director of the Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center.
He lives in Pasadena, with his wife, artist Courtney Gregg, and their daughter.