Episode 35: Deesha Philyaw

In Part 1 of Episode 35, award-winning author Deesha Philyaw sits down for a virtual interview with award-winning writer Scott Semegran.

In Part 2 of Episode 35, Deesha Philyaw reads a selection from The Secret Lives of Church Ladies.

About 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. Deesha is also a Kimbilio Fiction Fellow and will be the 2022-2023 John and Renée Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi.

This episode was filmed remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Books by Deesha Philyaw

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