Philip Graham Mailing Address: 605 West Vermont Urbana, Illinois 61801 County: Champaign E-mail Address: p-graham@uiuc.edu Phone numbers: Work: 217-244-4500 Home: 217-337-6898 Genre: Fiction/Creative Non-Fiction

Periodical Publications:

• "The Spirit in the Statues" (creative non-fiction), Things, #14 (London, England), 2001
• <"Rewind" (fiction), River Styx, 2000
• "The Power of Art: Novelist Ismail Kadare Shows Us the Connections Between Creation and Destruction" (creative non-fiction), Tribune Books, Chicago Tribune, 17 October 1999
• "Beauty Marks" (fiction), Apalachee Quarterly, 1997
• "Lucky" (fiction), The North American Reviewü 1994
• "Angel" (fiction), The Missouri Review, 1992
• "The Pose" (fiction), The Chariton Review, 1992
• Others in such journals as The New Yorker, Mid-American Review, Fiction, Chicago Review, Poets & Writers Magazine, The Washington Post Magazine, etc.

Book Publications:

• Interior Design: Stories. Scribner, 1996.
• How to Read an Unwritten Language (novel). Scribner, 1995.
• Parallel Worlds: An Anthropologist and a Writer Encounter Africa, co-authored with Alma Gottlieb (nonfiction). Crown Publishers/Random House, 1995, 1993.
• The Art of the Knock: Stories. William Morrow & Company, 1985.

Forthcoming Publications:

Awards, Fellowships, Grants and Honors:

• Artist's Grant, Illinois Arts Council, 2001.
• How to Read an Unwritten Language nominated for the 1997 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
• The Victor Turner Prize, awarded to Parallel Worlds: An Anthropologist and a Writer Encounter Africa (co-authored with Alma Gottlieb) by the American Anthropological Association's Society for Humanistic Anthropology, 1993.
• The William Peden Prize in Fiction, awarded by The Missouri Review for the short story, "Angel," 1992.
• "Light Bulbs," short story, performed by actress Mary Ann Thebus (directed by Steve Scott) for Stories on Stage, Organic Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, December 14, 1992.
• 1992 National Endowment for the Arts, Creative Writing Fellowship.
• Others

Recent Readings, Performances and Productions:

• Illinois State University, 2001.
• River Styx Reading Series, St. Louis, Missouri, 2000.
• Sweet Briar College, Virginia, 1999.
• Virginia Festival of the Book, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1996 and 1998.
• Hungry Mind Bookstore, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1997.
• Elliot Bay Bookstore, Seattle, Washington, 1997.
• Powell's Bookstore, Portland, Oregon, 1997.
• Shakespeare & Co., New York City, 1997.
• Others

Recent Workshops:

• Visiting Hurst Professor, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri. Three week residency in the graduate creative writing program. September 9-27, 1996.
• The Abidjan Writers' Workshop, Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire: was the Guest of Honor for two weekend writers' retreats with Ivoirian writers, critics and editors at Grand Bassam and the American Cultural Center in Abidjan. Sponsored by Arts America, United States Information Agency, and United States Information Service. March 16-23, 1990.
• University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia: Young Writers' Workshop. July 17-21, 1988.

Present Employment:

Preferred Audience:

• All audiences

Willing to travel:

• yes