Helen Phillips Biography

Helen Phillips is the author of the novel The Beautiful Bureaucrat (Henry Holt August 2015). Her collection And Yet They Were Happy (Leapfrog Press 2011) was named a notable collection by The Story Prize. She is also the author of the children’s adventure book Here Where the Sunbeams Are Green (Delacorte Press 2012; published internationally as Upside Down in the Jungle). Helen has received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award the Italo Calvino Prize in Fabulist Fiction The Iowa Review Nonfiction Award the DIAGRAM Innovative Fiction Award the Meridian Editors’ Prize and a Ucross Foundation residency. Her work has been featured on PRI’s Selected Shorts at the Brooklyn Museum and in Tin House The New York Times Electric Literature New York Magazine and BOMB among others. A graduate of Yale and the Brooklyn College MFA program she is an assistant professor of creative writing at Brooklyn College. Born and raised in Colorado Helen lives in Brooklyn with her husband artist Adam Douglas Thompson and their two children. Her new collection Some Possible Solutions is forthcoming from Henry Holt in 2016.
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