Logan Phillips is a bilingual writer, poet and performer originally from the Arizona-Mexico borderlands, born in Tombstone in 1983.

A veteran of the American poetry slam movement, Logan has competed in four National Poetry Slams, finishing 20th out of more than 350 performers in 2004. His work has been featured on the Spanish language television network Univision 33 Phoenix and KSFR Santa Fe among other public radio affiliates. While studying Spanglish linguistics at Northern Arizona University from 2001-05, Logan was the host of the nationally-known FlagSlam (fall 2004 and 2005), a founding member of the nonprofit NORAZ Poets and was published in various statewide publications, tying as first runner-up for the Tucson Poetry Festival Will Inman Award in fall 2005. Since then, he has toured his native Southwest from one corner to the other and performed as widely as Paris and Mexico City.

He tries to take things seriously only when absolutely necessary, and thinks plants and photographs are a lot like poems. He would eat Nutella on everything if given the chance. Except chiles rellenos. Poetry only came after failing as a graffiti artist. He enjoys living near volcanos and cinemas that show 1970’s lucha films. While living in the city, he misses the desert. While in the desert he misses the ocean. He has been called “the young voice of the Southwest,” by fellow poets and “the coolest” by eight-year-old Mexicans in his English class.

Logan left Flagstaff, AZ in 2006 and travelled for seven months, ending in central Mexico where he worked as an elementary school teacher for a time. Currently he works as a literature professor, English teacher, journalist, translator, designer and poet, among other things. In early 2007 he helped the first regular poetry slam get started in Mexico City and has no idea where he’ll be seven months. He believes in passion, imagination, honesty and thinks you should write more.