Gavin Phillips is a Canadian-based author whose fiction
explores the interior lives of people trying to survive themselves.
His novels — "Grace," "Dying
to Live," "A Little Unsteady," and
"Hummingbird" — follow characters shaped by
grief, trauma, identity, and the slow, unglamorous work of becoming.
A character-driven writer at his core, Phillips is drawn to
deeply flawed, deeply human protagonists — the ones who are
brilliant and broken, tender and self-sabotaging, reaching toward
connection even when they don't quite know how.
His prose is lean, intimate, and unafraid of silence.
From the sweeping, interconnected lives navigating generational
trauma in his new upmarket epic, "Grace," through
"Dying to Live," a terminally ill
valedictorian road-tripping with the father she never really had,
Phillips writes with unflinching honesty about the people most
stories leave in the margins.
He lives in New Brunswick, Canada, with his wife and
stepdaughter, and is currently at work on his next novel, “The
Equation.”
