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Deesha Philyaw’s debut short story collection, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, won the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the 2020/2021 Story Prize, and the 2020 LA Times Book Prize: The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction.
The Northeastern Law alumna, who began working at Merrimack College in 2019, oversees all legal matters affecting the College including litigation, contracts, policies and Title IX compliance.