“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

Please join Square Books and the University of Mississippi in welcoming the 2022-2023 Grisham Writer-in-Residence Deesha Philyaw, author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies. Deesha will be in conversation with local author and friend Aimee Nezhukumatathil, of World of Wonders.