Phillip Jennings

Phillip Jennings won the Pirates Alley Faulkner

Society first prize in 1999 for his short story

Train Wreck in a Small Town, leading him to

believe he might be a writer. He's still trying to

find out. He's flown helicopters in combat in

SE Asia for three years managing to expertly

lose five aircraft from enemy gunfire and poor

decisions, chased spies and radicals for vari-

ous intelligence agencies, created three com-

panies reaching a billion-dollar market cap in

industries he knew little about (including one

NYSE company he founded in Beijing), con-

sulted for a Saudi Arabian bank in the jungles

of Colombia, drank tea with a king and had

breakfast with Muhammed Ali. A Mensa

member for years he is desperately trying to

find the savant part of being an idiot/savant.