Phil Sandick is an Associate Teaching Professor in the English Department at Georgetown University, Director of the Creative Writing Minor, and a core faculty member within the Georgetown University Writing Program. He received his PhD in English (Rhetoric and Composition) from The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, where he taught first-year writing, literature and film, and also served as Assistant Director for the Writing Program. Formerly a fiction editor at The Carolina Quarterly, Phil received an MFA in fiction from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His stories have appeared in Confrontation, Five Chapters, and The L Magazine, andhas a book chapter in the collection of essays on creative writing pedagogy, Can Creative Writing Really Be Taught? (Bloomsbury Academic). Originally from Queens, New York, Phil has also taught creative writing, composition, and literature at UW-Madison, Philadelphia University, and Harcum College, and was awarded the UNC Student Undergraduate Teaching and Staff Award in 2017.