Phillippe Diederich

8.15.15 at the Gallery at Avalon Island
Reading from: his debut novel, Sofrito

Phillippe Diederich is an award-winning fiction writer and photojournalist. He is the author of the novel Sofrito (Cinco Puntos Press, 2015). His short fiction has been published in numerous national literary journals including Quarterly West, Acentos Review, Burrow Press, The Wisconsin Review, High Desert Journal, Hobart and many others. He has been awarded the Chris O’Malley Prize for Fiction from the Madison Review and received an Elizabeth George Foundation grant, a Florida Individual Artist Fellowship in Literature from the Florida Department of Cultural Affairs, and a John Ringling Towers Grant in Literature from the Sarasota County Artist Alliance.