Phill was born in Melbourne, Australia. He graduated in Social Work and Psychology from Melbourne University where he completed an honours MA. He began his working life as a Social Worker and Psychotherapist and ended as an Executive Educator at Melbourne Business School. Phill has worked in solving problems and building better relationships with groups of workers on the shop floor to Senior Executive teams in multi-national corporations and in Commonwealth and State Government. During all those years he had also worked as a psychotherapist helping individuals, couples and groups to manage crises in their lives. After finishing this career he decided to become an author and he wrote The New Mind Travellers which sits on the margins of the Science Fiction and Fantasy and The Speculative fiction genre, from which standpoint he believes he is better able to explore marginally unthinkable issues. He now lives in Central Victoria with his wife.
