Evander K. Phillips grew up between coastal Norfolk, Virginia, and Yorkshire, England, the child of a Navy meteorologist and a museum curator. He studied materials science at the University of Manchester and later trained in stained‑glass conservation at York Minster, cataloguing war‑scarred panels and learning kiln work. His short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, The Moth, and Shoreline of Infinity, and he received a Northern Writers' Award in 2019 alongside a Society of Antiquaries bursary. Phillips has taught evening courses in folklore and craft at community colleges and consults on heritage restoration projects. He lives between Leeds and Whitby with his partner and an elderly whippet, and plays the concertina badly but enthusiastically.
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