Stephanie Phillips works at the front desk in the School of Art and provides administrative support for the school and faculty. She graduated from UT in 2013 with a degree in English, and went on to receive her Master’s in fiction from the University of Southern Mississippi’s Center for Writers in Hattiesburg, MS.

In Knoxville she works closely with local literary non-profit and artists’ residency Sundress Academy for the Arts, and recently became the art editor for the online literary magazine Stirring. Besides writing, she has experience in photography, web design, and making coffee.