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Pennwriters Presents: Interview with Deesha Philyaw and Danielle Chiotti

When:
Friday, January 15, 2021, 6:00 PM until Wednesday, February 10, 2021, 5:00 PM
Where:
Join us on our Pennwriters YouTube channel.
PW Presents
Additional Info:
Contact(s):
Rhonda Battenfelder
 
Joy Givens
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Online Event
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Deesha

Deesha Philyaw’s debut short story collection, THE SECRET LIVES OF CHURCH LADIES was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction and for The Story Prize (2020/2021). THE SECRET LIVES OF CHURCH LADIES focuses on Black women, sex, and the Black church.

Deesha is also the co-author of Co-Parenting 101: Helping Your Kids Thrive in Two Households After Divorce, written in collaboration with her ex-husband. Her work has been listed as Notable in the Best American Essays series, and her writing on race, parenting, gender, and culture has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, McSweeney’s, The Rumpus, Brevity, dead housekeeping, Apogee Journal, Catapult, Harvard Review, ESPN’s The Undefeated, The Baltimore Review, TueNight, Ebony and Bitch magazines, and various anthologies.

Deesha is a Kimbilio Fiction Fellow and a past Pushcart Prize nominee for essay writing in Full Grown People.   

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