Leila Philip

Leila Philip is the author of award-winning books of literary nonfiction that have received starred reviews and have been reviewed by the New York Times and elsewhere. A Guggenheim Fellow, she has also been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Philip was a contributing columnist at the Boston Globe from 2016 to 2020 and teaches in the Environmental Studies Program at the College of the Holy Cross, where she is a professor in the English Department.