Leila Philip

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. Since 2010, she has taught at the MFA Program at Ashland University

Anthologized

 * 2015: Brief Encounters, edited by Judith Kitchen, (W. W. Norton & Company)
 * 2010: Why We're Here, edited by Bob Cowser, (Colgate University Press)
 * 2008: Creating Nonfiction, edited by Becky Bradway, (St. Martin's Press)
 * 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: Pushcart Prize in Literature, Nomination for Water Rising
 * 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.

Published interviews
Future of Long Form On the Fly: Leila Philip
 * 2012: The Future of Longform: exploring the Space between Writers and Readers in the new Media Galaxy, "Picturing the Essay", interviewed by Pepi Ronalds, Melbourne, Australia
 * 2011: Writers on the Fly: Unesco Project: Cities of Literature, Iowa City. Interviewed by Ben Hill.
 * 2010: River of Words: Portraits of Hudson Valley Writers, edited by Nina Shengold (interview format), SUNY press