Phil West
Lecturer, The Writing Program
Contact
- GSR 1.112B
- phil.west@utsa.edu
Bio
Phil West has been a college professor since 2000. He graduated from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas in Austin that year, focusing on poetry and playwriting. He loves teaching — specifically, to help students become better writers, readers, and critical thinkers, to use the rhetorical approach in those aims, to help students find and develop their voices, and to be pragmatic and organized in approaching writing assignments.
He has been writing professionally most of his life and it's anchored distinct phases of his life: Covering the nascent Seattle music scene for newspapers (starting in college in the late '80s and into the mid-'90s), being part of the poetry slam movement of the mid-to-late '90s, running the still-active Puro Slam series in San Antonio from 2001 to 2006 when he lived in San Antonio, doing public relations and content management for clients ranging from giant companies to authors and artists, and currently, writing about soccer. (He has two books out on The Overlook Press covering the beautiful game, one on the history of MLS, and one on the U.S. Men's National Team's prospects for future success, and he writes and edits for MLSSoccer.com, the official site for Major League Soccer.)
He lives in Austin with his amazing wife, two talented sons, and one magical daughter.
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