Philip Schultz at the NYS Writers Institute in 2011

Philip Schultz, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, is the author of the new memoir, My Dyslexia (2011), a first-hand exploration of the mind's ability to triumph over its own disabilities. Unable to read until the age of 11, Schultz avoided a medical explanation of his difficulties until his oldest son was diagnosed with the condition.

The author of six books of poetry, Schultz received the Pulitzer Prize for Failure (2007), a collection that investigates the many varieties of failure, both personal and artistic. Schultz's other collections include The God of Loneliness (2010), Living in the Past (2004), and The Holy Worm of Praise (2002). Schultz's first poetry collection, Like Wings (1978), received the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Award.

A teacher as well as a poet, Schultz also serves as director of the Greenwich Village writing school, The Writers Studio, which he founded in 1987.

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