Philip Shelley

Philip Shelley is co-editor of Whiskey Tit Journal, an offshoot of the renegade Vermont-based literary small press, and his writing has been featured in publications from Pitchfork to Sad Girls Club, in the Word Portland anthology Ungatherable Things, and in performance at Howl! Arts in lower Manhattan.

He came of age as the guitarist and principal songwriter for influential NYC all-teenage art-pop band Student Teachers (recently the subject of a full-page story in the Sunday Times  and a special segment of KCRW's "Lost Notes" podcast). The first chapter of his novel Willett received the Andre Dubus Award for short fiction and is currently on submission.

Philip is a resident of Bath, Maine, a graduate of the University of Southern Maine, and a co-founder of the Portland-based writing group, Unsafe Space. For the past seven years he has worked as a senior editor and creative strategist at the University of New England, where he is editor-in-chief of the UNE Magazine.

See Janie Heath & Friends Part 1 from Howl! Arts.