She is currently at work developing TV shows based on her short fiction. Deesha’s debut novel, The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman, is forthcoming from Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollins, in September 2026.
Deesha is a Kimbilio Fiction Fellow, a Baldwin for the Arts Fellow, a United States Artists Fellow, and co-host of two podcasts, Ursa Short Fiction (with Dawnie Walton) and Reckon True Stories (with Kiese Laymon).
Check out one of our 2026 Nonfiction Selections, “Body Topography” by Camille LeFevre (The Dodge), selected by Lily Hoàng on bestofthenetanthology.com/2026-2/2026-nonfiction/body-topography/
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Special shoutout to Jaqi Howard, whose comic CLOVER was selected for inclusion in @bestofthenet.bsky.social!
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Deesha Philyaw’s debut short story collection, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Story Prize, the LA Times Book Prize: The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction.
Announcing our 2027 Fiction judge for the Best of the Net Anthology: @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social!
Check out all our judges at bestofthenetanthology.com/2027-judges/
Midwest Weird is an audio literary magazine featuring weird fiction and nonfiction by Midwestern writers. From strange styles to unique identities, from written tales to oral tradition, from Iowa to Indiana and everywhere in between, we’re the podcast home for stories that stick with you.
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Each week, BotN randomly selects a journal from the previous year's Participating Journals list to highlight on social media.
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