Philip Arnold has lived a life in the long shadows cast by the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. He holds a BA and MA in English Literature from Appalachian State University. His poems have appeared in Rattle, The Iowa Review, Midwest Quarterly, Southern Poetry Review, Caf' Review and Sequestrum. His poetry has received an Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council. His creative non-fiction has appeared in North Dakota Quarterly, The Olive Press and apt, from which his piece, Stereoscopic Paris, was selected as a notable essay in the Best American Essays series.
