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Lightborne

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Author

Hesse Phillips

Release Date

May 2, 2024

Genre

Adult – Historical

Publisher

Atlantic Books

Categories , Tag Product ID: 19683

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About the Author

Photograph of author Hesse Phillips

Hesse Phillips’ historical novel Lightborne, about the murder of queer Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe, was a finalist in the Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair 2022 and is now forthcoming from Atlantic Books UK (2024). Their poetry and prose have appeared in The Bridport Review, the époque press é-zine, Sage Cigarettes, Roi Fainéant Press, Pangyrus, and others.

Hesse was born and raised in rural Pennsylvania but now lives in Spain. They have a PhD in Drama from Tufts University and are a graduate of Grub Street Boston’s intensive Novel Incubator program.

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