Leila Philip

Leila Philip

Work by Leila Philip has been included in Issue 13.2 and 15.2.

Leila Philip is the author of three books of nonfiction, including her most recent work, the award-winning memoir, A Family Place: A Hudson Valley Farm, Three Centuries, Five Wars, One Family (Viking 2001, Penguin 2002, SUNY Excelsior Edition, 2009). She has received numerous awards for her writing, including the Pen Martha Albrand Citation for Nonfiction and fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts, The National Endowment for the Humanities, The Radcliffe Research and Study Center, and the Guggenheim Foundation. She loves exploring the boundaries of the lyric essay and walking the woods with her dog. She teaches creative writing at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, where she is an Associate Professor in the English Department. When not writing or teaching, she’s usually pruning apple trees at her family’s apple orchard in the Hudson Valley.