Hesse Phillips

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