Jayne Anne Phillips

Jayne Anne Phillips was born in Buckhannon, West Virginia. She is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the novels Night Watch, Quiet Dell, Lark and Termite, MotherKind, Shelter and Machine Dreams, as well as two short story collections. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, and a Bunting Fellowship. She has been awarded the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and an Academy Award in Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her work has been translated into twelve languages, and has appeared in Granta, Harper’s, DoubleTake, and The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Fiction.
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