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Birth—1981
Wjere—state of Colorado, USA
Education—B.A., Yale University; M.F.A., Brooklyn College
Currently—lives in Brooklyn, New York City, New York


Helen Phillips is the author of the novels, Beautiful Bureaucrat (2015) and The Need (2019) . She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award and the Italo Calvino Prize, among others. Her collection, And Yet They Were Happy, was also a finalist for the McLaughlin-Esstman-Stearns Prize, and her work has been featured on NPR's Selected Shorts and appeared in Tin House, Electric Literature, Slice, BOMB, Mississippi Review, and PEN America.

Phillips has been an assistant professor of creative writing at Brooklyn College and lives in Brooklyn with her husband and children. (From the publisher.)