Helen Phillips
Born1981 (age 42–43)
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

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

Biography

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 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)[12]

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)[13] 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. 1 2 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. 1 2 3 4 "Bio". Helen Phillips. Archived from the original on 2019-08-09. Retrieved 2019-08-09.
  7. 1 2 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)
  8. ↑ "TSP: Outstanding and Notable 2011 Collections". TSP. 2012-02-08. Archived from the original on 2019-08-09. Retrieved 2019-08-09.
  9. 1 2 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. ↑ 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.
  12. ↑ 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)
  13. ↑ 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) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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