Faith Phillips, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, is known for her work as a novelist, screenwriter, and producer living in the Ozark foothills. She created, wrote, and executive-produced the national docu-series The Girl Scout Murders in 2022.

Her third book, Now I Lay Me Down, is an Oklahoma best seller selected for development with legendary documentarian Stanley Nelson and the HULU/Firelight Kindling Fund. Phillips adapted her true crime novel into an original pilot, Bad Creek Bridge, a finalist in the SeriesFest TV Lab. She is also the creator of the crime noir series Cadaver Dog. 

Faith’s feature screenplay Mankiller Shell was selected as a finalist for the Almanack Screenwriters Colony. She was also named a 2024 recipient of the Netflix Native American Writer Accelerator Grant. Phillips recently signed with Bloomsbury Publishing to pen an MMIW true crime novel, due for release in 2026.