Philip Christman

Phil Christman is the author most recently of How to Be Normal: Essays (Belt, 2022) and Midwest Futures (Belt, 2020), which won the 2021 Midwest Book Award for Nonfiction/History/General. From 2014 to 2024 he served as the Editor of the Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing, a product of the LSA Prison Creative Arts Project at University of Michigan. His essays and criticism have appeared in The Baffler, The Nation, Harpers, Hedgehog Review, Plough Quarterly, Commonweal, Christian Century and other places.