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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.
An associate professor in Merrimack College’s School of Arts and Sciences, Noori’s research uses plant science to protect human health and restore environmental health.