Phillip Barron is a poet and philosopher in Portland, Oregon.

His first book of poetry, What Comes from a Thing, was published by Fourteen Hills Press. It won the 2019 Nicolás Guillén Outstanding Book Award from the Caribbean Philosophical Association and the 2015 Michael Rubin Book Award. Elsewhere, his poems appear in New American Writing, Brooklyn Rail, Fourteen Hills, and Janus Head. He is a member of the Community of Writers and served as the 2012 editor of Squaw Valley Review.

Currently, Barron is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Connecticut. While writing a dissertation on narrative conceptions of personal identity, he teaches in the Philosophy Department at Lewis & Clark College on a predoctoral fellowship. He also worked for many years as a digital media specialist at the National Humanities Center. At UConn, he is a member of the Artificial Intelligence, Mind, and Society (AIMS) and Expression, Communication, and the Origins of Meaning (ECOM) research groups.