Julie Phillips

Julie Phillips (born Seattle, Washington) is an American writer who writes about books, film, and culture. In early adulthood she became interested in feminism. Her articles have appeared in "Newsday", "Mademoiselle", "The Village Voice", and elsewhere. Her biography of James Tiptree, Jr., titled "James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon", won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Hugo Award for Best Related Book, and the 2007 Washington State Book Award for History/Biography.
In 2017, she was awarded a Whiting Creative Nonfiction grant to complete her book "The Baby on the Fire Escape." She is also working on a biography of the writer Ursula K. Le Guin.
She lives with her husband and two children in Amsterdam, where she is a book critic for the daily newspaper "Trouw" and for the website 4Columns.