Phil Scearce

Phil Scearce is the son of Sgt. Herman Scearce, a World War II Pacific War veteran. Phil grew up listening to stories about his dad's experiences during the war- stories that haven't been told until now, about the men and missions of a B-24 Liberator unit in the Pacific.

Phil is a graduate of the Middle Tennessee State University Writer's Loft Program and a member of the Tennessee Writer's Alliance. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and earned his MFA from the Mountainview Program at Southern New Hampshire University. Finish Forty and Home was the 2010 Mayborn Literary Non-Fiction Conference First Place Winner for Literary Excellence, awarded by Village Voice Media. It was selected a Best of the Best of the University Presses by the American Library Association, and was a main selection of the Military and History Book Club.

Phil lives in Readyville, Tennessee with his wife, Diane, and an orange tabby cat, Guster.