Philip Sultz was born in Buffalo, New York, and began his artistic studies at the Albright Art School there in 1949. Sultz is professor emeritus of art at Webster University in St. Louis, and his visual work was represented for over three decades by Allan Stone Gallery in New York. He was a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and has exhibited extensively. Sultz is also an accomplished writer whose poetry and prose have been published in numerous journals, including Fifth Wednesday and The Hopkins Review. He lives in Maine.