Philip Reari (pen name for Ari Phillips) is an editor at an environmental organization in Washington, D.C., and a recovering journalist. His writing has appeared in After Dinner Conversation, Dissent, Kyoto Journal, Literary Heist, n+1, The Rumpus, Slate and others. He’s published two novels, Eat Your Damn Vegetables (2022, shortlisted for Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Award) and Earth Jumped Back (2024). He’s also an associate editor at JackLeg Press.

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.