Phil Brown is a journalist, poet, author, and editor of the independent arts website InReview Queensland which features
on the website indailyqld.com.au. He was formerly Arts Editor of The Courier-Mail and over a four-decade career has written for a range
of national and international newspapers and magazines. He has published his poetry widely in the mainstream press and literary journals.
He is the author of two books of verse, Plastic Parables and An Accident in the Evening.
His book of humorous travel stories, Travels with My Angst was shortlisted for the Arts Queensland Steele Rudd Award
at the 2005 Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards. Any Guru Will Do was the second in his memoir series and the third,
The Kowloon Kid was shortlisted for The Courier-Mail People’s Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award in 2020.
He lives in Brisbane’s inner-north with his wife Sandra McLean.