American author, professor, and editor (born 1951)
Philip Graham (born August 26, 1951) is an American author, professor, and editor. He is one of the founders, and the current editor-at-large, of the journal Ninth Letter, as well as a professor emeritus in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he received three campus-wide teaching awards. He taught in the low-residency MFA program of the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Additionally, he is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, two Illinois Arts Council grants, and the William Peden Prize in Fiction from The Missouri Review, as well as fellowship residencies at the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo artists' colony.
Graham was born in Brooklyn, New York City on August 26, 1951. He received a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College in 1973, where he studied with Grace Paley, and received an M.A. from City College/City University of New York in 1976, where he studied with Donald Barthelme and Frederic Tuten.
Writing.
Graham is the author of seven books.
Graham’s non-fiction has appeared in The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post, "Things" (U.K.), and "In the Middle of the Middle West: Literary Nonfiction from the Heartland" (edited by Becky Bradway). His dispatches from Lisbon appeared regularly on the website of "McSweeney’s". He has written over 30 book reviews on contemporary fiction and non-fiction for the Chicago Tribune and The New Leader. His essays on the craft of writing have appeared in "Rules of Thumb: 73 Authors Reveal Their Fiction Writing Fixations" (edited by Michael Martone and Susan Neville), "Words Overflown by Stars" (edited by David Jauss), "Now Write! Nonfiction Writing Exercises from Today’s Best Writers and Teachers" (edited by Sherry Ellis), and "The Field Guide to Writing Flash Nonfiction", edited by Dinty W. Moore.
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