H.B. Phillips was born in Boston in 1949, grew up in Maine and South Carolina. He studied anthropology and Egyptology and has worked at a lot different things, from construction of flying staircases inside beautiful homes to restoring antique stone houses. He's gold-mined in the desert, fought in a war, cooked in a really big kitchen, slept in some fancy hotels, and even spent a night in a dumpster. He has picked fruit with migrants, marched in a protest, danced with the debs, been a bartender, a waiter, a limo driver, a road agent, and a dad. He's also an inventor, designer, and above all else, (when he is not gardening), he likes to make people laugh and to think.