About Phil.

Phil is a freelance journalist based in his hometown: Providence, Rhode Island. His debut book, Prescription for Pain: How A Once Promising Doctor Became the “Pill Mill Killer,” was released in April 2024, from Steerforth Press. The Columbus Dispatch called it a “riveting true-crime page-turner.” And BookPage wrote, “With Prescription for Pain, Eil joins the ranks of investigative journalists like Sam Quinones (Dreamland), Patrick Radden Keefe (Empire of Pain) and Beth Macy (Dopesick), adding a crucial piece of the puzzle to understanding an epidemic that continues to arrest the nation.”

Phil was the news editor and staff writer at the alt-weekly, the Providence Phoenix, until the paper closed in 2014. Since then, he's contributed to VICE, the Atlantic, Men’s Health, The Nation, Boston Magazine, and Huffington Post, among other outlets.

For many years, he taught in the Literary Arts + Studies department at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). He has also taught courses at UMass-Dartmouth, Brown University, and Columbia University’s graduate writing program.