Philip James Sterwerf was raised in Mount Healthy, Ohio. Since his 2015 graduation from Bowling Green State University, he’s published multiple flash fiction stories in various online journals including Midwestern Gothic and Flash Fiction Magazine. In 2014 he was awarded the Howard McCord Poetry Award from his Alma Mater’s litmag Prairie Margins. Philip’s also written many news and opinion articles, short film scripts, sloppy comic strips and punk rock songs

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