Phillip Calvert Scearce (p.c. scearce) is originally from Danville, Virginia where he earned his B.A. in English from Averett University and was awarded first and second place in their poetry contest as well as named 1994's Distinguished English Major of his graduating class. Afterward, he moved to Washington, DC with a scholarship award to George Mason University's Masters in Fine Arts in Poetry Program. He published his first collection God In Flight in 2003 and his second collection the ambitious Among the Confessional Relics in September 2020. His work has appeared in the Screen Door Review, Euantes, and Ember as well as two compilations from Averett College: The 1993 Poets, and The 1994 Poets, and in Super Stoked Poetry: An Anthology of Queer Poets from Capturing Fire Press edited by Regie Cabico. In 2019 the anthology Lovejets: Queer Male Poets on 200 Years of Walt Whitman edited by Raymond Luczak he contributed to it. From 1997 to 2014 he worked for the US EPA as a webmaster and freelanced as web & graphic designer for some local business and for international recording artist Kristine W. He continues to live in DC where he is a disabled retiree cohabiting with his two cats and continues to write poems.