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. She is a winner of the Story Prize.

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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 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 Collegehttps://www.brooklyn.edu/academics/programs/creative-writing-mfa/.

Her debut was the story collection And Yet They Were Happy. [6] It was named a notable collection by The Story Prize. [7] In 2013, she wrote a children's adventure novel. [8] She followed with her first adult novel, The Beautiful Bureaucrat. [9]

Awards and recognition

Selected works

Novels

Short story collections

Children's books

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  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)