Phillip Crymble

PHILLIP CRYMBLE was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland and emigrated to North America with his family as a child. He holds two Bachelor's degrees, and in 2002 earned his MFA from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he went on to teach for a number of years. Phillip's work has appeared in The Hollins Critic, The New York Quarterly, Michigan Quarterly Review, Passages North, Tar River Poetry, Poetry Ireland Review, Oxford Poetry, The Salt Anthology of New Writing, and numerous other publications worldwide. In 2007 he published a short collection with Lapwing and was selected to read in Poetry Ireland's annual Introductions series. Phillip now lives with his wife and son in Fredericton, New Brunswick, where he divides his time between serving as a poetry editor for The Fiddlehead and pursuing a PhD in American Literature.