Helen Phillips is the author of six books, including the novel Hum, a Slate Top 10 Book of 2024 and a New York Times Editors’ Choice. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. Her novel The Need was Longlisted for the National Book Award. She received the John Gardner Fiction Book Award and was a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and the New York Times. She teaches at Brooklyn College

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