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Deesha Philyaw

Deesha Philyaw

Deesha Philyaw's collection of short stories about Black women, sex, and the Black church, The Secret Lives of Church Lives (West Virginia University Press) is a National Book Award finalist. 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, Cheat River Review, ESPN’s The Undefeated, The Baltimore Review, TueNight, Ebony and Bitch magazines, and various anthologies. Deesha is a Fellow at the Kimbilio Center for African American Fiction and a past Pushcart Prize nominee for essay writing in Full Grown People. She 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.

All Posts by Deesha Philyaw

Horses run free in Mexico
Stories

Fear and Fresh Air: How Two Trips to Mexico Set Me Free

By Deesha Philyaw
a yellow telephone from the 1970s/80s
Wisdom

Making Prank Calls: Finding Retribution as a Kid in the 80s

By Deesha Philyaw
Wisdom

Nope, It Doesn’t Need to be Steamed, Sprayed or Douched

By Deesha Philyaw
Culture

9 Books for a Better World

By Deesha Philyaw
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