J. C. Phillipps

Bio

The J stands for Julie. The C stands for Christine. Just so you know, people call me Julie. You can too.

I grew up in Ohio and Michigan. I attended a ton of Saturday morning classes at the Toledo Museum of Art. I went to Hope College in Holland, MI where I studied art and theater. I highly recommend going to college and studying art and theater. It's really fun! Then I went to graduate school in Boston and studied theater education. I had such a good time studying theater that I went on to teach it. After I got my Master's Degree, I taught mask-making at Emerson College. I also taught young children at an afterschool program in Cambridge, MA. That's when I first started thinking about children's books.

I got married and we moved to Connecticut and had a son. We also acquired a friendly, but annoying cat named Java. Now I spend my time doing fun things like writing stories, making collages, and painting fish. And sometimes I do boring stuff, like folding laundry, cooking, and tidying up. (But even the boring stuff can give me ideas. Mostly it's just boring. Be nice to your mom.)

Here's a few pictures of me growing up. In the first one, I'm about two or three. In the last one I'm ... well, let's just say I'm twenty-nine. Okay?