Philip Garrison

Born in the Midwest, not more than a few miles upriver from Hannibal, MO, Philip Garrison has lived and taught in the Pacific Northwest since 1967. He has taken degrees from the University of Missouri and the University of Iowa. His diverse academic interests range from hillbillies to Homer to Cervantes to contemporary Chicano Literature. While teaching at Central Washington University, Garrison divided his time between the main campus in Ellensburg, WA, and branch campuses in Mexico, at Guadalajara, Jalisco and Morelia, Michoacán. Recently, his book Because I Don't Have Wings was translated into Spanish and published by the Cultural Secretariat of Michoacán. Now semi-retired, he currently directs the APOYO food and clothing bank, which he founded in 1995, with several members of the mexicano community.