Biography
Ashleigh Bryant Phillips is the winner of the C. Michael Curtis Short Story Book Prize,
for her debut collection SLEEPOVERS (Hub City Press, 2020). Called "elegant and mesmerizing"
and "brimming with dark and romantic details, the sorts of things that only a vigilant
witness would note" by Amanda Petrusich in the New Yorker, SLEEPOVERS, was featured
in Poets & Writers, Publishers Weekly, and elsewhere. It was also longlisted for the
Story Prize and won the Towson Prize for Literature. An Italian translation, PIGIAMA
PARTY, was published by Bompiani in 2023. Professor Phillips' short stories appear
in the Paris Review, Oxford American, Narrative, Southwest Review, the Baffler and
elsewhere. Descended from a long line of Northeastern North Carolinians, she grew
up in the town of Woodland. She's interested in voice, sound, and memory.
