Hesse Phillips

Hesse Phillips (she/they) was raised next-door to a chicken farm in rural Pennsylvania but now lives in Spain. Their historical novel Lightborne, about the death of Christopher Marlowe, was a finalist in the Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair 2022 and forthcoming from Atlantic Books UK (2024). Their poetry and prose have appeared in The Bridport Review, the époque press é-zine, Roi Fainéant Press, Emerge Literary Journal, Erato Magazine, and Pangyrus, among others. They have a PhD in Drama from Tufts University and are a graduate of Grub Street Boston's intensive Novel Incubator program.

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