Philip Belcher is the author of a chapbook, The Flies and Their Lovely Names (Stepping Stones Press, 2007), and a full-length poetry volume, Gentle Slaughter (MadHat Press, 2022). He has won the Porter Fleming Writing Competition Prize in Poetry, the South Carolina Poetry Initiative Chapbook Prize, and Shenandoah‘s Carter Prize for the Essay, and his poems and critical prose have appeared in numerous journals. He earned degrees from Furman University (BA), Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (M.Div.), The Duke University School of Law (J.D.), and Converse College (MFA). He works in philanthropy and lives in Asheville, North Carolina.