Julie Phillips

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Julie Phillips (born Seattle, Washington) is an American writer who writes about books, film, and culture. In early adulthood she became interested in feminism. Her articles have appeared in Newsday , Mademoiselle , The Village Voice , and elsewhere. Her biography of James Tiptree, Jr., titled James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon, won the National Book Critics Circle Award, [1] the Hugo Award for Best Related Book, the 2007 Washington State Book Award for History/Biography, and the Locus Award for Best Non-fiction/Art Book. [2]

In 2017, she was awarded a Whiting Creative Nonfiction grant to complete her book The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem, which was published in 2022. [3] [4] She is also working on a biography of the writer Ursula K. Le Guin. [5]

She lives with her husband and two children in Amsterdam, [6] where she is a book critic for the daily newspaper Trouw and for the website 4Columns.

References

  1. ↑ The National Book Critics Circle Award page
  2. ↑ "sfadb : Julie Phillips Awards". www.sfadb.com. Retrieved 2023-02-25.
  3. ↑ "2017 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grantee: Julie Phillips". Whiting.org. Whiting Foundation. Archived from the original on 25 January 2018. Retrieved 24 January 2018.
  4. ↑ LeBlanc, Lauren (April 20, 2022). ""A riveting biographer — and mother — works to solve 'the mind-baby problem'"". Los Angeles Times.
  5. ↑ Phillips, Julie (January 25, 2018). "The Subversive Imagination of Ursula K. Le Guin". The New Yorker.
  6. ↑ Interview at Strange Horizons Archived 2007-12-23 at the Wayback Machine
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