Helen Phillips (novelist)
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Colorado, U.S.
Brooklyn College (MFA)
Helen Phillips | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1981 (age 43–44) Colorado, U.S. |
| Occupation | Writer |
| 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 | |
Phillips 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 College.
Her debut was the story collection And Yet They Were Happy, which was published in 2011.[6] In 2012 it was listed as a "highly recommend" notable collection by The Story Prize.[7] In 2013 she published a children's adventure novel, Here Where the Sunbeams Are Green.[8] She followed it with her first adult novel, The Beautiful Bureaucrat, in 2015.[9]
