Julie Phillips

{{short description|American writer}}

Julie Phillips (born Seattle, Washington) is an American writer who writes about books, film, and culture. In early adulthood she became interested in feminism. Her articles have appeared in Newsday, Mademoiselle, The Village Voice, and elsewhere. Her biography of James Tiptree, Jr., titled James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon, won the National Book Critics Circle Award,[https://web.archive.org/web/20060710033434/http://www.bookcritics.org/?go=awards The National Book Critics Circle Award page] the Hugo Award for Best Related Book, the 2007 Washington State Book Award for History/Biography, and the Locus Award for Best Non-fiction/Art Book.{{Cite web |title=sfadb : Julie Phillips Awards |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Julie_Phillips |access-date=2023-02-25 |website=www.sfadb.com}}

In 2017, she was awarded a Whiting Creative Nonfiction grant to complete her book The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem, which was published in 2022.{{cite web|title=2017 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grantee: Julie Phillips|url=https://www.whiting.org/awards/content/julie-phillips#/|website=Whiting.org|publisher=Whiting Foundation|accessdate=24 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180125074550/https://www.whiting.org/awards/content/julie-phillips#/|archive-date=25 January 2018|url-status=dead}}{{Cite journal |last=LeBlanc |first=Lauren |date=April 20, 2022 |title="A riveting biographer — and mother — works to solve 'the mind-baby problem'" |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2022-04-20/the-baby-on-the-fire-escape-julie-phillips-review |journal=Los Angeles Times}} She is also working on a biography of the writer Ursula K. Le Guin.{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/the-subversive-imagination-of-ursula-k-le-guin|title=The Subversive Imagination of Ursula K. Le Guin|last=Phillips|first=Julie|date=January 25, 2018|magazine=The New Yorker}}

She lives with her husband and two children in Amsterdam,[http://www.strangehorizons.com/2006/20061120/phillips-int-a.shtml Interview at Strange Horizons] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071223141303/http://www.strangehorizons.com/2006/20061120/phillips-int-a.shtml |date=2007-12-23 }} where she is a book critic for the daily newspaper Trouw and for the website 4Columns.