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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>The University of North Florida</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b> presents An Evening with Deesha Philyaw</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> - a reading, Q&A, and book signing featuring best-selling
author (and Jacksonville native) Deesha Philyaw. This event is part of</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><a href="https://english.domains.unf.edu/justicesessions/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color:var(--eds-control,#3659e3);cursor:pointer">The
Justice Sessions</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">, an ongoing series focusing on race, social justice, the arts, and Jacksonville's past and present.
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>The DHI is proud to help sponsor this live event, held at the Lazzara Performance Hall on campus, next Tuesday, Nov. 9 from 7-9pm. </b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Neue Plak";"><i style="font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><b></b></i></span></p>
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Deesha Philyaw is the author of the debut short story collection<span> </span><em>The Secret Lives of Church Ladies</em><span> </span>(West Virginia University Press, 2020), which won the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the 2020/2021 Story Prize, and a
2020 LA Times Book Prize: The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction; the collection was also a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction. She is also the author of<span> </span><em>Co-Parenting 101: Helping Your Kids Thrive in Two Households After
Divorce</em>, written in collaboration with her ex-husband.</p>
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<em>The Secret Lives of Church Ladies</em><span> </span>explores the raw and tender places where Black women and girls dare to follow their desires and pursue a momentary reprieve from being good. Nine stories featuring four generations of characters who grapple
with who they want to be in the world, the collection was praised as “luminous stories populated by deeply moving and multifaceted characters,” by Kirkus Reviews and “addictive while also laying bare the depth and vulnerability of Black women,” by Observer.
Author Tara Campbell notes, “The love in Philyaw’s stories runs the gamut from sweet to bitter, sexy to sisterly, temporary to time tested, often with hidden aspects. The word secret in the title is earned, and some of the secrets are downright juicy.”<span> </span><em>The
Secret Lives of Church Ladies</em><span> </span>is being developed for television by Tessa Thompson for HBO Max.</p>
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Philyaw’s 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 also a Kimbilio Fiction Fellow and will be the 2022-2023 John and Renée Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University
of Mississippi. She is a past Pushcart Prize nominee for essay writing in Full Grown People.<span> </span></p>
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<strong style="font-weight:700">“Deesha Philyaw uses the comic, the allegorical, and the geographic to examine Black intimacies and Black secrets. Her work is as rigorous as it is pleasurable to read.” –Kiese Laymon</strong></p>
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<strong style="font-weight:700">“Tender, fierce, proudly Black and beautiful.” –Kirkus Reviews</strong></p>
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