Will Phillips was born and raised in Texas. He attended high school in Denver, Colorado, and upon graduation, began wandering from one place to the next, living in Bozeman, Montana, Los Angeles, California, and Fort Collins, Colorado. He currently resides in Texas.
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I have wanted to be a writer for as long as I can remember, but it wasn’t until I began my self-education that I realized the kind of writer I wanted to be. Three years ago, I began a rigorous study of classic literature, including Hermann Hesse, Ernest Hemingway, and Jack Kerouac, as well as Dostoevsky, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flaubert, Camus, Steinbeck, Joyce, among many others, not to mention countless poets. I have also studied the philosophers who inspired the themes and topics about which these authors wrote. It was the classic Hessean bildungsroman theme that inspired my coming of age novel, Restless Heart.
Birth Place
Plano, TX US
Accomplishments
First place in the William Faulkner Literary Competition for my poem "Song of the Vagabond."
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