PHILIP EIL

Philip Eil is an award-winning freelance journalist based in his hometown, Providence, Rhode Island. He is the former news editor of the alt-weekly newspaper, The Providence Phoenix. Since the paper’s close in 2014, he has contributed to The Atlantic, The Nation, Men’s Health, the Boston Globe, Huffington Post, and the Columbia Journalism Review, among other outlets. He holds an MFA in Nonfiction Writing from the Columbia University School of the Arts.