Philip Christman, with his wife, the theatre scholar and playwright Ashley Lucas, lives in Durham, North Carolina, where he is working on a novel. He holds an MA in English Literature from Marquette University and an MFA in fiction writing from University of South Carolina-Columbia. During 2010-11 he taught English composition and poetry writing at North Carolina Central University, the nation’s oldest public historically black college. Since 2009 he has served as Writing Coordinator at MURAP, a summer program that prepares outstanding minority undergrads for graduate school in the humanities. (His CV is posted under the fourth tab above.) He also works as a writing coach (see third tab) and serves on the vestry of St. Titus Episcopal Church. His writing has appeared in Paste,Annalemma, Books & Culture, Identity Theory, The Christian Century, The Mercy Review, NWSA Journal, and other places. You can e-mail Phil at philipchristman@gmail.com.

New publications will be linked to on the blog (the final tab on the right, above), and/or listed under “Publications” (second tab). His blog (fifth tab), finally, is irregularly updated and discusses books, music, politics, religion. He cannot promise readers that he will never mention the television program “Doctor Who.” He also blogs at the Marilynne Robinson Appreciation Society.