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An Anthology of Rural Stories by Writers of Color, 2025 features writers of color whose stories explore rural or semi-rural spaces. From farms to trading posts, basketball courts to kitchens, houses to cafes, these stories-whose themes include complicated relationships, personified places, death, immigration, love, and loneliness-show the complicated experiences of those living in the underpopulated parts of the U.S.

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Guest Editor 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 and was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction. Deesha is a Kimbilio Fiction Fellow, a Baldwin for the Arts Fellow, a United States Artists Fellow, and co-host of two podcasts, Ursa Short Fiction (with Dawnie Walton) and Reckon True Stories (with Kiese Laymon). She is currently at work developing TV shows based on her short fiction. Deesha's debut novel, The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman, is forthcoming from Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollins, in 2026. Series Editor Keith Pilapil Lesmeister is the author of We Could've Been Happy Here and Mississippi River Museum. A founding editor of Cutleaf, he received his MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. He currently lives and teaches in the Driftless region.

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