Philip F. Deaver
Philip F. Deaver is known mainly as a short story writer, though he's published poetry and creative nonfiction. His short story collection, Silent Retreats, won the Flannery O’Conner Award for short fiction. His poem "The Worrier's Guild" has played twice on Garrison Keiller's Writer's Almanac, been reprinted in the peer-reviewed journal for the Center for Disease Control, and been translated into Bulgarian for an online literary journal there. This fall Deaver has a story in an anthology entitled Visiting Hours, (Press 53), and an essay called "The Bat" in Lee Gutkind's baseball issue of the journal Creative Nonfiction.
For more on Philip Deaver,
- See his personal web site
- Read an interview with Philip Deaver by Nancy Zafris at the Kenyon Review
- Read his short story "Projects" at the Chattahoochee Review
- Read and listen to the poem "The Worriers' Guild" from How Men Pray at the Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor
- Read the essay "How Men Pray: Marketing the Book" on self-marketing at Conversational Reading