https://www.brianphillipwhalen.com/bio daily 0.75 2026-03-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed698acf64e380478dfff93/dad20be2-b626-4f73-a7b4-1a09ee5b6b87/whalen%2C+headshot+%5B2024%5D.JPG Bio Brian Phillip Whalen’s debut collection, Semiotic Love [Stories], was named one of the Best Books of 2021 by Kirkus Reviews. His work can be found in The Southern Review, Creative Nonfiction, Lit Hub, Copper Nickel, Gulf Coast, The Pinch, North American Review, Poets.org. and elsewhere. Brian has a PhD from SUNY Albany and an MFA from Iowa State University. He teaches creative writing and literature at Mount St. Joseph University in Cincinnati, where he’s an Assistant Professor of English. 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These love stories are the bomb.” Click on the image to read a review of Semiotic Love [Stories] from RHINO. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed698acf64e380478dfff93/1626249487002-IOMROQPPZPA6MU2OZSAO/bloom.jpg News & Media - “…a rich ecosystem of love and loss." Click on the image to read my interview with Maddie King for Bloom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed698acf64e380478dfff93/1622146317488-J2MGT9AKCTLYTFLFQMRQ/Screenshot_20210417-130726_Chrome.jpg News & Media “Alluring, enlightening, and unforgettable stories.” Click the image to read the starred review of Semiotic Love [Stories] from Kirkus Reviews. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed698acf64e380478dfff93/1624475245843-NQG2GXZKZWFEV5QKQNRF/nyswi+photo.jpg News & Media - “The Conversation” series at the New York State Writers Institute. Click the image to watch my interview with novelist Edward Schwarzschild. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed698acf64e380478dfff93/1622752872358-T41HR04X8RTH5C6RKNWD/heavy+image.jpg News & Media - “This book hurts. It will hurt you. But you’re just grateful Whalen is delivering the tender punches.” Click the image to read Becca Yenser’s review of Semiotic Love [Stories] from Heavy Feather Review. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed698acf64e380478dfff93/1626249752310-E8ZU3PGPQHMQU8110ELO/masters.png News & Media - "[R]eading Brian Phillip Whalen’s Semiotic Love is like eating a multi-layered trifle..." Click the image to read Meera Parasuraman’s review of Semiotic Love [Stories] from The Masters Review. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed698acf64e380478dfff93/1622143142139-TENCDOAOI17DENAPDXQW/largehearted+boy-page0001.jpg News & Media - Click the image to hear my song list and read liner notes to accompany Semiotic Love [Stories]. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed698acf64e380478dfff93/1617821202888-OZWBXH8IG00C7IT62X8J/insta+promo.png News & Media - Click the image to hear me read “The Father Bell” from Semiotic Love [Stories] on the Micro podcast. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed698acf64e380478dfff93/1622142832416-L4QC9F3I5GGU2IQCYW89/ed+conversation.jpg News & Media - Click the image to see my conversation with Edward Schwarzschild. Hosted by Johnstown Public Library (NY) on April 14, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed698acf64e380478dfff93/1622142525133-RIJHHDQAKVBC25UJ3BFH/158360092_1682093911978173_7374578145182328978_o.jpg News & Media - Click the image to watch me read from Semiotic Love [Stories] and chat about writing with Amy Lorraine Long and Richard Z. Santos. Hosted by Malvern books (Austin) on March 13, 2021. https://www.brianphillipwhalen.com/publications daily 0.75 2026-03-05 https://www.brianphillipwhalen.com/anthologies-1 daily 0.75 2025-09-15 https://www.brianphillipwhalen.com/anthologies-1/the-southern-poetry-anthology-vol-ix-virginia monthly 0.5 2024-10-10 https://www.brianphillipwhalen.com/anthologies-1/chapbook monthly 0.5 2024-10-10 https://www.brianphillipwhalen.com/anthologies-1/a-tether-to-this-world monthly 0.5 2020-11-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed698acf64e380478dfff93/1606536400002-ZXQUMZI89FZ89NHWS7T7/image-asset.jpeg Anthologies - A Tether to This World My essay “Dead Sister [How the Light Gets In]” reprinted in A Tether to This World, an anthology of mental health recovery stories published by Main Street Rag (2021). Originally published in Copper Nickel (2020). Click the image to order. https://www.brianphillipwhalen.com/anthologies-1/poetsorg monthly 0.5 2024-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed698acf64e380478dfff93/1598298929622-BI6UI82FVSET3PYFA05X/images+f.png Anthologies - Poets.org My prose poems “How Will I Address Him When He’s Dead” & “Teufelsdröckh, Give Up the Ghost” at poets.org. Originally published in The Southern Review. https://www.brianphillipwhalen.com/anthologies-1/flashnonfictionfood monthly 0.5 2025-09-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed698acf64e380478dfff93/1598299132833-SWOOEMLNP0EH9SZFXAMJ/61%2BbJPvbYnL.jpg Anthologies - Flash Nonfiction Food - “It used to be we’d sit in bars at 3:00 am speculating cream versus half-and-half, debating French press versus good espresso with the same intensity with which we argued Carlyle versus Wordsworth...” My essay “Dear Erik” in the Flash Nonfiction Food anthology from Woodhall Press (2020). Buy it here. https://www.brianphillipwhalen.com/anthologies-1/flashnonfictionfood-lhd74 monthly 0.5 2025-09-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed698acf64e380478dfff93/ff42d37f-aaae-44d1-abf5-a573b75bf8f5/eir-best-prose-poetry-2025-6a.png Anthologies - Best Prose Poetry 2025 - “And you, my daughter, who is yet to talk, what poems will you write when you learn to walk?” My prose poem “First Sonnet” reprinted by Eastern Iowa Review in their best of prose poetry anthology. Buy it here.