Deesha Philyaw

Sep 9, 2024 | thecreativeindependent.com | Deesha Philyaw

Deesha Philyaw is the author of the debut short story collection, , which won the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the 2020/2021 Story Prize, the 2020 LA Times Book Prize: The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction. focuses on Black women, sex, and the Black church, and is being adapted for television by HBO Max with Tessa Thompson executive producing. Deesha is also a Kimbilio Fiction Fellow and a Baldwin for the Arts Fellow.

Jul 23, 2024 | memoirland.substack.com | Sari Botton |Mark Armstrong |Kiese Laymon |Deesha Philyaw

Deesha Philyaw’s debut short story collection, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, won the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the 2020/2021 Story Prize, and the 2020 LA Times Book Prize: The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies focuses on Black women, sex, and the Black church, and is being adapted for television by HBO Max with Tessa Thompson executive producing.

Nov 16, 2023 | fracturedlit.com | Deesha Philyaw

Does Love exist? Is fat meat greasy? Cuz ain’t no way I could’ve fallen so hard, so fast, so far, by myself. Rewind that. I didn’t fall in love. Like Toni Morrison said, I rose in it. If only for one night. I levitated for that brother with the high-top fade, tired eyes, and pretty smile. That first night, we worked it out, strangers on the club floor. Some Bobby Brown, some Chubb Rock, a little Jody Watley, the chaos and black steel of Public Enemy, and then Miss Jackson (cuz I’m nasty and he is too).

Jul 14, 2023 | southernfoodways.org | Deesha Philyaw

On Gratitude & Blue Crabs The ritual of the boil is both comforting and complicated, familiar and fraught. by Deesha Philyawillustrations by Lindsey BaileyStamford, Connecticut: Spring 1994There’s a joke I used to tell about the time my then-fiancé, Mike, gave me crabs. Brought me crabs is more specific, but the clarification ruins the joke. He brought me a dozen live blue crabs in hopes of relieving my stress in the midst of grad-school finals.

Feb 7, 2023 | booksandbooks.com | Deesha Philyaw |Gabriela Garcia |Gabriela García

Books & Books and Miami Book Fair presents…in conversation withAnjanette DelgadodiscussingWhen Trying to Return Home: Stories(Counterpoint, $27.00)Tuesday, February 7th, 7 PM | LIVE & IN-PERSON at Books & Books, Coral GablesSigning to follow the conversation Join us in-person at Books & Books as writer and poet, Jennifer Maritza McCauley, discusses WHEN TRYING TO RETURN HOME. An evocative meditation on belonging, the meaning of home, and how we secure freedom on our own terms.