The Story Prize

Let me tell you about her.

Deesha Filial's debut short story collection, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, won the 2021 Penn Faulkner Award for Fiction, the 2020-2021 Story Prize, and the 2020 LA Times Book Prize, the Art Steenbaum Award for First Fiction, and was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction.

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Deesha is a Commbilio Fiction Fellow, a Baldwin for the Arts Fellow, a United States Artist Fellow, and co-host of two podcasts, Ursa Short Fiction with Donnie Walton, and Wrecking True Stories with KSA Lehman.