A much-published bi-national immigrant, gardener, Bonsai-grower, painter, Phillips grew up in upstate N.Y. and has lived in New England, London, New Mexico, St.Louis, Rhode Island, & now Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Her chapbooks: Sitting Safe In the Theatre of Electricity (i-blurb.com, 2020) and A Song of Ascents (Orchard Street Press, 2022).