Leila Philip (born April 18, 1961) is an American writer, poet and educator.
Life 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 From 1983 to 1985, she apprenticed to Nagayoshi Kazu, a master potter in southern Kyushu, then went on to earn an MFA at Columbia University as the Woolrich Fellow in Fiction.
Philip has taught writing and literature at Princeton University, Columbia University, Emerson College, Colgate University, Vassar College, and at the Ohio University as the James Thurber Writer in Residence. 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.
Philip has taught at writing conferences and low residency MFA Programs including Stonecoast, The Chenango Valley Writers Conference, and Fairfield University.CAS administration Fairfield University Since 2010, she has taught at the MFA Program at Ashland University.
Bibliography Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America. Twelve Books. Hachette Publishing Group. 2022. . "Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America."
A collaboration between Leila Philip and her partner Garth Evans.
One woman's journey to uncover her family's history and understand the ties that bind us to a particular place.
Winner of the Victorian Society Book Award
Examines the evolving roles of women in Japan and the implications for Japanese society.
The story of Leila Philip's journey to Miyama–a village settled almost four centuries ago by seventy Korean potters–where she was accepted as an apprentice into the workshop and home of master potter Kazy Nagayoshi and his wife, Reiko.
Anthologized 2015: Brief Encounters, edited by Judith Kitchen, (W. W. Norton & Company) 2010: Why We're Here, edited by Bob Cowser, (Colgate University Press)"Leila Philip" at Google Books. 2008: Creating Nonfiction, edited by Becky Bradway, (St. Martin's Press)"Creating Nonfiction" at Google Books. 1993: Maiden Voyages, edited by Mary Morris, (Vintage Books)
Awards and honors 2020 Furthermore Publication Award, J.M, Kaplan Fund 2020 Society of Environmental Journalists Story Grant Award 2019 Michigan Humanities Council Fellowship 2017 American Antiquarian Society Artist & Writers Baron Fellowship for Historical Research 2015 Ct Arts /NEA Initiative Grant funded by the National Endowment for the Arts 2014: National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend 2007: Guggenheim Fellowship, Literary Nonfiction 2002: Publication Award, the Victorian Society of America 2000: National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship in American Studies 1999: American Association of University Women, American Fellowship 1999: Furthermore, J.M. Kaplan Fund 1994: National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature 1991: James Thurber Writer-in-Residence, The Ohio State University, Columbus 1990: PEN/Martha Albrand Special Citation for Nonfiction.
References
External links "Leila Philip" at the author's website Leila Philip's Profile at her official Facebook page Water Rising at her news book's official website "Leila Philip" on Amazon's Author Central The Boston Globe College of the Holy Cross professor profile Riverteeth Speculative Nonfiction