Phillips, Daniel (b. 1982) grew up in southeastern Massachusetts and studied urban studies at UMass Amherst before earning an MFA in fiction from the University of Michigan. He worked as a grant writer for housing nonprofits in Providence and Fall River, where he learned more than he expected about sidewalks, storm drains, and the people who live beside them. His short fiction and essays have appeared in New Ohio Review, Ninth Letter, and Kenyon Review Online. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island, with his partner and an elderly terrier, and volunteers with a neighborhood group advocating for more accessible, human-scaled streets.
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