Christina Phillips

Posts by: Christina Phillips

Born This Way and the Children Who Never Fully Leave Home

April 14th, 2016

Nobody talked to me about what happened when my sister grew up until I was headed off to college.

Christina is finishing up her final year of her MFA in Creative Nonfiction at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, and has a podcast called What We Keep, about the physical artifacts that narrate our lives. She has a BS in Biology from Furman University, and is interested in the intersection between science and storytelling. Christina's younger sister, Ashley, is the inspiration and the subject of many of her essays, and Christina is writing a book about the experience of growing up with a sibling with an intellectual disability. Her work has appeared in 1966: A Journal of Creative Nonfiction. You can find her at @whatwekeeppod on Twitter, and at whatwekeeppodcast.com.