The first time he felt that he meant something and that his identity mattered was when in 2007 he saw “Shelter” the movie. However, he did find a few queer books though it was a rare thing given that such stories were hidden by the many gatekeepers in the society he lived in. The fact that He never saw himself represented in the books he read or the movies and TV he watched made him even more confused. For the longest time he felt isolated and was always on a quest to understand his identity. It was with his fourth novel that he finally got his manuscript for “The Gravity Of Us” accepted for publishing by Bloomsbury Young Adult Division.Īs for the inspiration for his debut novel “The Gravity of Us,” Phil Stamper asserts that he has always known that he was gay right from the time he was a child. He then started writing fan fiction and several manuscripts for novels that never did sell. He continued working in PR and publishing though the dry writing started getting to him. While he had never intended to work in publishing, during the process of querying, writing, researching, and revising, he fell in love with book publishing and got a masters in Publishing and Creative Writing from Kingston University in London. Being a person that always loved writing, he was soon working for a nonprofit PR company for which wrote tons of new stories, press releases, speeches, and emails to annoyed journalists.
He had a little bit of money and the promise of a tiny room where he could live as he found his footing. He currently works for a major publishing house in New York City, where he lives with his husband.Īfter graduating from college, Stamper left Dayton and went to Washington, DC as his hometown did not have many prospects for someone of his talents. As a teen, he went to the University of Dayton, where he got a bachelor’s in music and would later get another degree in publishing.
Phil Stamper is a Young Adult, Contemporary, Gay and Lesbian author from Dayton Ohio best known for the novel “The Gravity Of Us.” Stamper grew up in a rural village just outside Dayton, where he spent a lot of his time entertaining himself with playing the piano and reading the 40 or so Agatha Christie novels that he found in the school library.
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