Philip Reari (pen name for Ari Phillips) is a Washington, D.C.-based writer and editor with a background in journalism. His work has been published by After Dinner Conversation (forthcoming), Dissent, KayTell Ink, Kyoto Journal, n+1, The Rumpus, Slate, Wired, and others. He’s an associate editor at JackLeg Press, where he works on fiction and creative non-fiction projects.

He grew up in State College, PA, and Santa Fe, NM, and went to school in Santa Barbara, CA, and Austin, TX, before settling in D.C. Along the way he was a fellow at Tara Books in Chennai, India, and received journalism grants to report in-depth environmental stories in the Western U.S. and Australia and New Zealand.

He has a thing for Norwegian novelists, tiny gardens, and olive cream cheese.