Helen Phillips (novelist)

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Helen Phillips
Born1981 (age 4243)
Colorado, U.S.
OccupationWriter
Alma mater Yale University (BA)
Brooklyn College (MFA)
Genre Fiction
Years active2009–present
Notable awards Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award (2009)
Spouse
Adam Douglas Thompson
(m. 2007)
Website
helencphillips.com

Helen Phillips (born 1981) [1] [2] is an American novelist.

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Biography

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]

Awards and recognition

Selected works

Novels

Short story collections

Children's books

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