birth_place birth_date article_title name occupation
brooklyn , ny , united states 26 august 1951 philip graham -lrb- writer -rrb-
 philip graham novelist
philip graham -lrb- writer -rrb-

philip graham -lrb- born august 26 , 1951 -rrb- is an american novelist , short story writer , creative non-fiction author , memoirist , political satirist , professor , and editor .
he is one of the founders , and the current fiction editor , of the literary/arts journal , ninth letter , which won the mla 's best new literary journal award in 2005 .
he is a professor in the creative writing program at the university of illinois at urbana-champaign , where he has been the recipient of three campus teaching awards .
he also teaches in the low-residency mfa program of the vermont college of fine arts .
additionally , he 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 from the missouri review , as well as fellowship residencies at the macdowell colony and yaddo artists ' colony .
graham was born in brooklyn , new york city on august 26 , 1951 .
he received a b.a. from sarah lawrence college in 1973 , where he studied with grace paley , and received an m.a. from city college/city university of new york in 1976 , where he studied with donald barthelme and frederic tuten .
