Summary
Helen Phillips (born 1981)[1][2] is an American novelist. She is a winner of the Story Prize.
Helen Phillips | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1981 (age 42–43) Colorado, U.S. |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Yale University (BA) Brooklyn College (MFA) |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Years active | 2009–present |
| Notable awards | Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award (2009) |
| Spouse |
Adam Douglas Thompson
(m. 2007) |
| Website | |
| helencphillips | |
Biography edit
She was born in Colorado. When she was a child, she was affected by alopecia, and by the age of 11, she had lost all of her hair.[3]
She graduated from Yale University in 2004,[4] and received her Master of Fine Arts (MFA) from Brooklyn College (CUNY) in 2007.[5] She moved to Brooklyn with her husband, the artist Adam Douglas Thompson, when she began Brooklyn's MFA and is now an associate professor of creative writing in the English Department of Brooklyn Collegehttps://www.brooklyn.edu/academics/programs/creative-writing-mfa/.
Her debut was the story collection And Yet They Were Happy. [6] It was named a notable collection by The Story Prize.[7] In 2013, she wrote a children's adventure novel.[8] She followed with her first adult novel, The Beautiful Bureaucrat.[9]
Awards and recognition edit
- Finalist in the 2009 Leapfrog Press Global Fiction Prize Contest.[1]
- Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award, 2009
- Iowa Review Nonfiction Award.[3]
- DIAGRAM Innovative Fiction Award, (date needed)
- Italo Calvino Prize in Fabulist Fiction
- Longlist: National Book Award for The Need.[10]
Selected works edit
Novels edit
- The Beautiful Bureaucrat (2015), which was named a New York Times notable book in 2015.[11]
- The Need (2019)[12]
Short story collections edit
- And Yet They Were Happy (2011),[6] winner of The Story Prize, finalist in the Leapfrog Press Global Fiction Prize Contest (2009), published by Leapfrog Press
- Some Possible Solutions (2016)[13] received the 2017 John Gardner Fiction Book Award.[11]
Children's books edit
References edit
- ^ "Phillips, Helen, 1981-". Library of Congress Name Authority File. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2019-10-18.
- ^ "Worldcat". Archived from the original on 2019-08-10. Retrieved 2019-08-10.
- ^ a b c "Helen Phillips: Biography". www.webbiography.com. Archived from the original on 2019-08-09. Retrieved 2019-08-09.
- ^ "Helen Phillips ('04) on Writing New Novels in New York City". Yale.NYC. Archived from the original on 2019-08-09. Retrieved 2019-08-09.
- ^ "Why She Is Happy". www.brooklyn.cuny.edu. 21 November 2011. Archived from the original on 2019-08-09. Retrieved 2019-08-09.
- ^ a b Phillips, Helen, 1981- (2011). And yet they were happy (1st ed.). Teaticket, Mass.: Leapfrog Press. ISBN 9781935248187. OCLC 669755001.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "TSP: Outstanding and Notable 2011 Collections". TSP. 2012-02-08. Archived from the original on 2019-08-09. Retrieved 2019-08-09.
- ^ a b Phillips, Helen (2013). Here where the sunbeams are green (1st Yearling ed.). New York: Yearling Books. ISBN 9780307931450. OCLC 828484037.
- ^ "100 Notable Books of 2015". The New York Times. 2015-11-27. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 2016-11-27. Retrieved 2019-08-09.
- ^ Malone Kircher, Madison (September 20, 2019). "Here Is the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction Longlist". Vulture. Archived from the original on December 22, 2023. Retrieved December 22, 2023.
- ^ a b c "Bio". Helen Phillips. Archived from the original on 2019-08-09. Retrieved 2019-08-09.
- ^ Phillips, Helen, 1981- (September 2019). The need : a novel (Center Point large print ed.). Thorndike, Maine. ISBN 9781643583198. OCLC 1117496169.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Phillips, Helen, 1981- (31 May 2016). Some possible solutions : stories (First ed.). New York. ISBN 9781627793797. OCLC 951186592.
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