Linda Vigen Philips is a retired teacher whose books include the novel-in-verse Behind These Hands (Light Messages) and the memoir A Beautiful Here (CreateSpace). Crazy, her debut novel, was a Paterson Prize Honor Book and a Junior Library Guild Selection, and was named to award lists by YALSA, the NYPL, Bank Street College, and other organizations. Raised in Oregon, Linda currently lives in North Carolina. She is a co-founder of Charlotte Clubhouse, part of an international movement dedicated to ending social and economic isolation for those living with mental illness.
