About Phil Cousineau and Sisyphus Press

PHIL COUSINEAU is an award-winning writer and filmmaker, story consultant and editor, travel leader and inspirational speaker on myth in the modern world. His fascination with the art, literature, and history of culture has taken him from Michigan to Marrakesh, Iceland to the Amazon, in a worldwide search for what the ancients called the “soul of the world.”

With more than 40 books and 30 scriptwriting credits to his name, the “omnipresent influence of myth in modern life” is a thread that runs through all of his work. Influential mentors include mythologist Joseph Campbell and religion historian Huston Smith.

Phil's books include Stoking the Creative Fires, Once and Future Myths,The Art of Pilgrimage,The Hero's Journey, Wordcatcher, The Painted Word, The Oldest Story in the World, The Book of Roads, The Accidental Aphorist, and The Lost Notebooks of Sisyphus. His latest work is Moonlight Over the Parthenon: Poems In and Out of Greece; The Wisdom of the Odyssey, will publish in summer of 2026. His books can be purchased wherever books are sold, but many, including autographed copies, are only available on the Sisyphus Press store online.

Sisyphus Press is named after King Sisyphus of Corinth, who has been one of the most compelling characters in world mythology for nearly three thousand years. The iconic image of Sisyphus putting his shoulder to the boulder and pushing it to the summit of the mountain, day after day, is recognizable the world over.