Cassandra Phillips has had a circuitous career path that includes newspaper reporting, movie reviewing, script development in the film industry, literary agency submission evaluation, co-ownership of commercial orchid nurseries in California and Hawaii, USDA-funded horticulture research, and coauthorship of two books: The Passion Paradox: Patterns of Love and Power in Intimate Relationships, with Dean Delis, PhD, and Plastic Ocean: How a Sea Captain’s Chance Discovery Launched a Determined Quest to Save the Oceans, with Capt. Charles Moore. She also coauthored, with David Boxer, the first, much-cited critical article about Raymond Carver—Voyeurism, Dissociation and the Art of Raymond Carver. She attended Smith, graduated in English from Pomona, spent time in UCLA’s MFA scriptwriting program, and earned a master’s in journalism at UC Berkeley. She and her husband, a noted hybridizer, currently operate an orchid nursery on the Big Island, but anticipate rejoining family in California in the near future—as they have for the past fifteen years. They have two children, a son, Billy, and a daughter, Keely. |
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