Phillip Gibbs

I spent most of my adult life going back and forth between two very different lives: spending a few months to a couple of years at a time as a political consultant in Washington, DC, New York, or overseas, and then spending months at a time usually in remote locations in the Rocky Mountains, the Sierra Nevadas, or the south of France, hiking, rock climbing, and writing poetry and fiction. Somehow, it worked out.

In the consultant part of my life, I did strategic planning, program design, organizational development, and program evaluation with the United Nations, National Geographic, and other national and international agencies in Somalia, Bosnia, Croatia, Mozambique, Nepal, Uganda, Kenya, Namibia, and other less interesting places.

I am now living in the mountains outside of Taos, New Mexico, and writing a novel and a memoir-ish non-fiction book, both of which are about international politics, cosmological physics, high stakes gambling, religion, and the search for a way to make sense of all this craziness.

Primary goals for 2015: finish a book proposal and stop injuring myself in adolescent accidents.