Philip Golabuk was born in New York, where he grew up playing stick ball in vacant lots and running around the Museum of Natural History and Metropolitan Museum of Art. At age twelve, he moved south with his family and eventually attended the University of Florida, where he worked closely with the late Drs. James Millikan, a phenomenologist, and Tom Hanna, a pioneer in somatics, earning undergraduate and graduate degrees in philosophy with special studies in metaphysics, phenomenology, religious philosophy, and theory of knowledge. From 1973-1993, Philip taught philosophy at the college level and as part of special outreach programs to inmates in jail and prison, and also wrote several books in applied philosophy that have been published in the U.S. and overseas in translation. Since then, he has turned his attention to writing works of philosophical fiction in the style of magical realism. His fiction titles include two novels, The Matchstick Sparrow (2008) and Hounding for Skipwaves (2006), and Dreams of the Chameleon (2000), a novella. Philip also attended the Writer’s Room under author Sloan Wilson for seven years and taught writing at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida..
Unpublished
The Matchstick Sparrow
Hounding for Skipwaves
Dreams of the Chameleon1
Ephemera
Schooling University of Florida
MA, BA philosophy
Other
Founder / Director | The Field Project
Founder / Director | The Fate Project Founder / The Philosophy Center
Directed the Writers Room (after Sloan Wilson) | 1990-97
Taught philosophy and writing at Rollins College | 1990-2001
Philip Golabuk was born in New York, where he grew up playing stick ball in vacant lots and running around the Museum of Natural History and Metropolitan Museum of Art. At age twelve, he moved south with his family and eventually attended the University of Florida, where he worked closely with the late Drs. James Millikan, a phenomenologist, and Tom Hanna, a pioneer in somatics, earning undergraduate and graduate degrees in philosophy with special studies in metaphysics, phenomenology, religious philosophy, and theory of knowledge. From 1973-1993, Philip taught philosophy at the college level and as part of special outreach programs to inmates in jail and prison, and also wrote several books in applied philosophy that have been published in the U.S. and overseas in translation. Since then, he has turned his attention to writing works of philosophical fiction in the style of magical realism. His fiction titles include two novels, The Matchstick Sparrow (2008) and Hounding for Skipwaves (2006), and Dreams of the Chameleon (2000), a novella. Philip also attended the Writer’s Room under author Sloan Wilson for seven years and taught writing at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida.. 