Phil Scearce is a husband, father, cat dad, and ally. He is a cancer survivor with NED since a radical right nephrectomy in 2019, living with reduced function in his remaining kidney. He earned his BA from the University of North Carolina and completed an MFA through the Mountainview Low Residency Program. His first book, Finish Forty and Home (UNT Press, 2011) won First Place – Literary Excellence at the 2010 Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference.
