Author Talk Featuring Author Julie Phillips on Motherhood and Creativity

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Join Advanced Academic Programs for a conversation with author Julie Phillips as she discusses her new book, The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem.

Julie Phillips is an American biographer and book critic and the author of The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem (Norton, 2022). Her previous book is James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon, which received several honors, including the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Hugo and Locus Awards, and the Washington State Book Award. Phillips has written for The New Yorker, Ms., The Village Voice, and many other publications. She is the recipient of a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant and residencies at Hedgebrook and Willapa Bay AiR.