Leila Philip | |
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Born | New York City |
Nationality | American |
Education | Bachelor of Arts; Master of Fine Arts |
Alma mater | Princeton University; Columbia University |
Genres | Poetry; Non-Fiction |
Spouse | Garth Evans |
Website | |
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Leila Philip (born April 18, 1961 in New York City) is an American writer, poet and educator. She is the author of award-winning books of nonfiction which have received glowing national reviews. Her books include: Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America, A Family Place: A Hudson Valley Farm, Three Centuries, Five Wars, One Family, Hidden Dialogue: A Discussion Between Women in Japan and the United States, The Road Through Miyama) and one collection of poetry (Water Rising). Philip has been anthologized in a number of books, including: Brief Encounters,[1] Teaching Creative Non-Fiction, Maiden Voyages: Writings of Women Travelers; Family Travels: The Farther You Go the Closer You Get; Japan: True Stories of Life on the Road, A Woman's Passion for Travel. She has contributed articles and reviews to newspapers, magazines, research [2] and journals including Ploughshares, The Christian Science Monitor,[3] Studio Potter Magazine,[4] the Yomiuri Shimbun and the Daily Yomiuri. Philip was a contributing columnist at The Boston Globe. She has written about art for Artcritical,[5] Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas[6] and Art in America.[7] She is the Contributing Editor of Riverteeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative.[8] In 2018, with writer Robin Hemley, she founded the online journal Speculative Nonfiction.
Leila Philip grew up in New York City and graduated from Princeton University in 1986, with a A.B. in Comparative Literature and a Fifth-Year Degree in East Asian Studies[9] From 1983 to 1985, she apprenticed to Nagayoshi Kazu, a master potter in southern Kyushu,[10] then went on to earn an MFA at Columbia University as the Woolrich Fellow in Fiction.[9]
Philip has taught writing and literature at Princeton University, Columbia University, Emerson College, Colgate University,[11] Vassar College, and at the Ohio University as the James Thurber Writer in Residence.[12] In 2004 she joined College of the Holy Cross' English department where she teaches creative writing and literature in the Creative Writing Program and the Environmental Studies Program.[13]
Philip has taught at writing conferences and low residency MFA Programs including Stonecoast,[14] The Chenango Valley Writers Conference,[15] and Fairfield University.[16] Since 2010, she has taught at the MFA Program at Ashland University[17]