Kimbilio Fellow Deesha Philyaw’s Year in Reading…

… including Fellows Jonathan Escoffery (IF I SURVIVE YOU) and Janelle Williams (GONE LIKE YESTERDAY).

Read more about both titles on the Kimbilio Author Page

I read my way through what has been a year full of big changes. My older daughter graduated college and my younger daughter graduated high school, freeing me to leave Pittsburgh (my home for the last 25 years) for good. Where would I live next? I still haven’t answered that question in terms of a permanent home, but my first stop is here in Oxford, Mississippi, where I’m the John and Reneé Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi. From audiobooks I listened to while packing up and then driving to The Sip, to craft books I read in preparation to teach an advanced fiction MFA workshop, below is a partial list of what I read this year. Some of these books are already out in the world; others, I was lucky enough to get an advance reader copy.