Phillip Corwinʼs poetry has been nominated for inclusion in the Pushcart Prize anthology. “Winter Morning Briefing” (published on MidnightMind.com) is from an unpublished collection about former Yugoslavia, where Mr. Corwin spent most of his time between 1992 and 1997, as a diplomat for the UN and for the OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe). He is the author of Dubious Mandate: A Memoir of the UN in Bosnia, Summer 1995 (Duke U. Press, 1999) and Doomed in Afghanistan: A UN Officerʼs Memoir of the Fall of Kabul and the Failed Escape of Najibullah, 1992 (Rutgers U. Press, 2003).
His work was featured in Midnight Mind Number Five.