Helen Phillips (novelist)

Helen Phillips (born 1981) is an American novelist. She is a winner of the Story Prize.

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.

She graduated from Yale University in 2004, and received her Master of Fine Arts (MFA) from Brooklyn College (CUNY) in 2007. 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. It was named a notable collection by The Story Prize. In 2013, she wrote a children's adventure novel. She followed with her first adult novel, The Beautiful Bureaucrat.

Awards and recognition

 * Finalist in the 2009 Leapfrog Press Global Fiction Prize Contest.
 * Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award, 2009
 * Iowa Review Nonfiction Award.
 * DIAGRAM Innovative Fiction Award, (date needed)
 * Italo Calvino Prize in Fabulist Fiction
 * Longlist: National Book Award for The Need.

Novels

 * The Beautiful Bureaucrat (2015), which was named a New York Times notable book in 2015.
 * The Need (2019)

Short story collections

 * And Yet They Were Happy (2011), winner of The Story Prize, finalist in the Leapfrog Press Global Fiction Prize Contest (2009), published by Leapfrog Press
 * Some Possible Solutions (2016) received the 2017 John Gardner Fiction Book Award.

Children's books

 * Here Where the Sunbeams Are Green (2012) was published internationally as Upside Down in the Jungle.