Three Perch Swimming

Ranging from hot nearly naked boys to Grampy's enduring love, Three Perch Swimming voyages through Nor'easter storms, worms, and prayer flags. Internet love searches, mental health, insurance battles and a letter to Vladimir Putin chart twenty-first century horrors.

"In her provocative, insightful and slyly delightful tapestries of words, Bedell Philips constructs fresh understandings of the

tenderness and violence in today's world." --Ellen Benson

Bedell Phillips is a widely published prize-winning writer. Her poem "Thinking About the Violence" was nominated for Best of the Net by Gravel Magazine in 2013. Around the Bend, her novel, received the NANO Writers Award for Fiction in 2018.

She is politically active, committed to the environment, and loves blazing new trails in both the outdoors and in literature. Bedell lives in Florida and New Hampshire.