Phillip Crymble

1967-

Phillip Crymble is a physically disabled writer and literary scholar living in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Crymble was born in 1967 in Belfast and moved to Milton, Ontario when he was 11. He moved to Fredericton to be Writer-in-Residence at UNB in 2008 and remained to teach part-time in the English Department.  A poetry editor at The Fiddlehead and a PhD candidate at UNB, he received his MFA from the University of Michigan. He has published poems in The Literary Review of Canada, The Forward Book of Poetry, The Malahat Review, The Montreal Prize Anthology, Poetry Ireland Review, and elsewhere. Not Even Laughter, his first full-length collection, was a finalist for both the J.M. Abraham Prize and the New Brunswick Book Award. In 2016 he won The Puritan’s annual Thomas Morton Poetry Prize. In 2017 he was voted the Reader’s Choice Award winner in Arc Poetry’s poem of the Year contest.

Predominant New Brunswick Residences:

Fredericton