About

Camellia Phillips is a freelance writer and consultant living in Melilli, Sicily, with her husband, novelist Marco Rafalà.

 

Raised by hippies in Washington State, Camellia built a 20-year nonprofit fundraising career in New York City, chasing the dream of making an impact with her words. In 2019, she was even selected as a 92Y Women inPower Fellow, a program for rising women leaders in New York City.

 

Today, she prefers the sleepy bustle of small-town life in Sicily, where she can write more and hustle less.

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You can find Camellia's short fiction and essays in CALYX Journal, cream city review,  The Caterpillar, The Mighty, Spoonie Journal, The Chopping Blog, and La Dolce Vita Lifestyle Magazine.

 

Her middle-grade manuscript, Rat, Jack, and the Impossible Job, has won several awards, including the Scribbler Manuscript Contest and the 2021 Pacific Northwest Writers Association Literary Contest. ​​​