Philip Eil is an award-win­ning free­lance jour­nal­ist based in Prov­i­dence, RI. He is the for­mer news edi­tor The Prov­i­dence Phoenix. Since the paper’s close in 2014, he has con­tributed to The Atlantic, Men’s Health, The Boston Globe, among oth­er out­lets. He has taught writ­ing and jour­nal­ism at Brown Uni­ver­si­ty, Colum­bia University’s School of the Arts, and the Rhode Island School of Design. He holds an MFA in Non­fic­tion Writ­ing from the Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty School of the Arts. This is his first book.