Helen Phillips (novelist)

Helen Phillips (born 1981)[1][2] is an American novelist. She is a winner of the Story Prize.

Helen Phillips
Born1981 (age 41–42)
Colorado, U.S.
OccupationWriter
NationalityAmerican
Alma materYale University (BA)
Brooklyn College (MFA)
GenreFiction
Years active2009–present
Notable awardsRona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award (2009)
Spouse
Adam Douglas Thompson
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(m. 2007)​
Website
helencphillips.com

Biography

She was born in Colorado When she was a child she was affected by alopecia, and by the age of 11 had lost all of her hair.[3]

She graduated from Yale University in 2004,[4] and received her Masters of Fine Arts (MFA) from Brooklyn College (CUNY) in 2007.[5] She moved to Brooklyn with a position as associate professor at Brooklyn College with her husband, the artist Adam Douglas Thompson, and their children.[6]

Her debut was the story collection And Yet They Were Happy. [7] It was named a notable collection by The Story Prize.[8] In 2013 she wrote a children's adventure novel.[9] She followed with her first adult novel The Beautiful Bureaucrat.[10]

Awards and recognition

Selected works

Novels
  • The Beautiful Bureaucrat (2015) which was named a New York Times notable book in 2015.[6]
  • The Need (2019)[11]

Short story collections
  • And Yet They Were Happy (2011)[7] winner of The Story Prize, finalist in the Leapfrog Press Global Fiction Prize Contest (2009), published by Leapfrog Press
  • Some Possible Solutions (2016)[12] received the 2017 John Gardner Fiction Book Award.[6]

Children's books
  • Here Where the Sunbeams Are Green (2012)[9] was published internationally as Upside Down in the Jungle.[6][3]

References
  1. "Phillips, Helen, 1981-". Library of Congress Name Authority File. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2019-10-18.
  2. "Worldcat". Archived from the original on 2019-08-10. Retrieved 2019-08-10.
  3. "Helen Phillips: Biography". www.webbiography.com. Archived from the original on 2019-08-09. Retrieved 2019-08-09.
  4. "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.
  5. "Why She Is Happy". www.brooklyn.cuny.edu. 21 November 2011. Archived from the original on 2019-08-09. Retrieved 2019-08-09.
  6. "Bio". Helen Phillips. Archived from the original on 2019-08-09. Retrieved 2019-08-09.
  7. 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)
  8. "TSP: Outstanding and Notable 2011 Collections". TSP. 2012-02-08. Archived from the original on 2019-08-09. Retrieved 2019-08-09.
  9. Phillips, Helen (2013). Here where the sunbeams are green (1st Yearling ed.). New York: Yearling Books. ISBN 9780307931450. OCLC 828484037.
  10. "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.
  11. 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)
  12. Phillips, Helen, 1981- (31 May 2016). Some possible solutions : stories (First ed.). New York. ISBN 9781627793797. OCLC 951186592.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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