Philip Graham (born August 26, 1951) is an American author, professor, and editor.
editor-at-large, of the journal Ninth Letter, as well as a professor emeritus in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he received three campus-wide teaching awards.
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.
[needs update] Graham’s non-fiction has appeared in The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post, Things (U.K.), and In the Middle of the Middle West: Literary Nonfiction from the Heartland (edited by Becky Bradway).
He has written over 30 book reviews on contemporary fiction and non-fiction for the Chicago Tribune and The New Leader.