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Philip Graham
 Philip Graham is the author of two short story collections, The Art of the Knock (William Morrow, 1985) and Interior Design (Scribner, 1996), the novel How to Read an Unwritten Language (Scribner, 1995; paperback Warner Books 1997), and he is the co-author (with Alma Gottlieb) of the memoir of Africa, Parallel Worlds (Crown/ Random House, 1993; paperback University of Chicago Press 1994), winner of the 1993 Victor Turner Prize. Graham’s fiction has been published in The New Yorker, North American Review, Carolina Quarterly, Fiction, The Washington Post Magazine, Missouri Review, Hunger Mountain, Western Humanities Review and elsewhere, and has been reprinted or translated in England, Germany, the Netherlands and India. His essays have appeared in The New York Times, ChicagoTribune,TheWashingtonPost and Poets & Writers Magazine. Graham is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, two Illinois Arts Council grants, and the William Peden Prize in Fiction, as well as fellowship residencies at the MacDowell and Yaddo artist colonies. Graham is the fiction editor of the literary/arts journal Ninth Letter, and the Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Illinois, where he has been the recipient of three campus teaching awards.
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